NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Friday, June 23, 1995

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

95-326 - Jefferson National Expansion (Missouri) - Gang Activity

Approximately 70 members of the Black Gangster Disciple Nation, all wearing
colors, gathered at the South Pond area of the park around 5 p.m. on the
afternoon of June 16th.  Rangers contacted the leader, a convicted murderer,
who said that the group had come for a picnic.  The St. Louis police gang squad
was advised of their presence, and several officers from that unit came to the
park to monitor the group's activity.  The park's rules and regulations were
explained, and the group was kept under surveillance until 8:30 p.m., when all
members departed.  There were no incidents.  [Deryl Stone, CR, JEFF, 6/19]

95-327 - Great Falls (Virginia) - Rescue

On the afternoon of June 19th, a 16-year-old girl lost her balance while
climbing on the rocks near Difficult Run and fell into the Potomac River,
striking her head on submerged rocks.  She was rescued from the river and taken
by Park Police helicopter to a local hospital, where she's reported to be in
stable condition with injuries to her head, jaw and mouth.  [Bill Lynch, Acting
RLES, RAD/NCRO, 6/21]

95-328 - Scotts Bluff (Nebraska) - EMS Incident; Rattlesnake Bite

Thirteen-year-old V.M. was hiking on the park's Saddle Rock trail on
June 16th when she was bitten by a prairie rattler.  A family friend carried
her a third of a mile to the visitor center, where rangers provided first aid
and called an ambulance.  V.M. underwent surgery to clean the wound and was
treated with anti-venom.  She spent the night in the hospital and was released
the next day.  [Glen Sherrill, CR, SCBL, 6/20]

95-329 - Whiskeytown (California) - Assist; MVA with Fatality

On the afternoon of June 18th, the park received a report of a motor vehicle
accident just outside the park's boundary.  Rangers were first on scene and
found that three vehicles had been involved in the accident, with one having
gone over an embankment.  CPR was being performed on the driver of the latter
vehicle, who was later pronounced dead.  A total of five victims were airlifted
to hospitals.  The cause of the accident is still under investigation.  [Larry
Carr, CR, WHIS, 6/19]

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL - Level II

2) LARGE FIRE SUMMARY
                                                                   %   Est
State    Area                Fire         IMT      6/21    6/23   Con  Con  

 NM    State               Spring          --     3,910   6,560    70  CN 6/24
       Roswell District  * Breezy          --         -   1,000     0  CN 6/23

 AZ    Apache/
        Sitgreaves NF    * Black           --         -     190   100  CND

 MI    Superior NF       * Gunflint        T2         -     700    50  CN 6/24


 CA    San Diego RU        Butterfield     ST/T2  5,073   7,083    85  CN 6/24

HEADING NOTES:

Fire     * = newly reported fire (on this report).  Cx = complex.
IMT     T1 = Type 1; T2 = Type II; ST1 = state Type 1; ST2 = state Type 2.
% Con   Percent of fire contained.
Est Con Estimated containment date.  NEC = no estimated date of
        containment; CND = fully contained; NR = no report.

3) FIRES YESTERDAY -

                NPS     BIA      BLM     FWS    States     USFS      Total

Number            3       5        5       0        54       14         81
Acres Burned      1   1,217    1,021       0     2,204       54      4,497

4) COMMITTED RESOURCES -

               Crews     Engines     Helicopters     Airtankers     Overhead

Federal           20        55           10               4             61
Non-federal       42         5            2               0            133

5) COMPARATIVE SUMMARY -
                                      CY 1995            Five Year Average
                                    Year-to-Date           Year-to-Date

Number of Fires                        41,421                  37,550     
Acres Burned                          643,291                 669,094 

6) SITUATION - Fire activity continued in the South, Southwest and East
yesterday.  Resource mobilization through NICC decreased significantly.  Large
fires continued to burn in Canada.

7) OUTLOOK - Fire activity is expected to Southwest, southern California and
East.

[NIFCC Incident Management Situation Report, 6/23]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No notes.

OBSERVATIONS

"Americans as a general rule build impermanently and as a result follow a
practice of making sweeping changes from time to time.  Thus many historic
sites are altered or wiped out altogether.  An early log cabin, a dilapidated
mansion, an Indian mound, fundamentally characteristic of the American scene,
may seem to the persons with an individual point of view to stand in the way of
progress.  But actually such buildings may be an invaluable state or national
asset, as real as a hundred square miles of forest and more completely
irreplaceable when lost.  Such structures provide us with a feeling of
continuity in our development, as they recall to our minds our most valuable
traditions, such as pioneer courage or the general social impulses of colonial
days, they give us faith in our ancestry, and they provide us with visual
symbols to join in our minds our past and future development."

                                                   Arno B. Cammerer
                                                   Director, 1933-1940

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