NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Monday, June 26, 1995

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

95-330 - Glen Canyon (Utah) - Mentally Unbalanced Person

On June 22nd, rangers received a report of a man acting strangely in the
Stanton Creek primitive camping area near Bullfrog.  The man, later identified
as M.C., had asked campers for food and a place to sleep.  They provided
M.C. with food, but refused to let him stay in their camp.  M.C. then told
the campers that he was in the Bullfrog area to "destroy a nucleus of
cannibals", and that everyone there was in danger.  Rangers subsequently found
M.C. locked in one of the area's portable outhouses.  M.C. told them that
he was an angel who had been dispatched to Bullfrog to rid the area of "a
nucleus of purple cannibal people."  He further stated that he'd been able to
sleep only 50 hours in the previous month because of his mission, and repeated
the warning that everyone in the area was in danger from the purple cannibal
people.  He could not explain how he'd gotten to the area, or how he was going
to carry out his mission; he had neither money nor transportation.  M.C. was
taken to the Bullfrog detention facility, where he agreed to voluntarily commit
himself for a mental evaluation in St. George, Utah.  He was transported out of
the park the next morning.  [Tomie Lee, CR, GLCA, 6/23]

95-331 - Mount Rainier (Washington) - Bomb Threat; Attempted Abduction; Pursuit

The concession manager at the Paradise Inn called the park's communications
center on the evening of June 24th to report a disturbance in the hotel's
lobby.  J.R., 34, of Spanaway, Washington, had entered the hotel
through the kitchen and had begun acting irrationally, shouting and threatening
to blow up the mountain.  J.R. was escorted from the inn by the manager. 
When he reached the parking lot, J.R. attempted to abduct a park visitor and
force him into a vehicle.  The visitor was able to break free, however, and
fled back to the inn.  J.R. then broke into a guest's car and attempted to
hot-wire it before leaving the area in his own vehicle.  Rangers pursued him,
but J.R. refused to stop.  The chase continued outside the park until local
officers stopped J.R. by flattening his vehicle's tires on a highway near
Eatonville.  J.R. then held two wires, claiming they were attached to a bomb,
and commandeered a state patrol vehicle in an attempt to flee the area. 
Troopers again flattened the vehicle's tires, and were able to subdue and
arrest J.R..  Due to earlier threats to blow something up and the fact that
wires and blasting caps were recovered at the scene of the arrest, Paradise Inn
guests were evacuated to the concession facilities in the visitor center until
the inn could be secured.  Members of the explosive ordnance disposal team from
Fort Lewis searched the inn and the Rainier Mountaineering guide house.  No
bomb was found, and visitors were permitted to return to their rooms.  J.R.
is being held in the county jail until charges can be filed against him.  The
FBI is assisting in the investigation.  [Lance Gillispie, MORA, 6/25]

95-332 - Blue Ridge (North Carolina/Virginia) - Flooding

Heavy rains caused flooding at the Otter Creek campground on the evening of
June 22nd.  About 25 visitors and their vehicles were stranded by the creek's
rising waters.  At the tim of the report, crews were trying to reach them.  The
campground's fee kiosk was flooded, and the bridge to the area was underwater. 
[Bill Spring, RAD/SERO, 6/23]

              [More pending incident reports tomorrow...]

FIRE ACTIVITY

1) NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL - Level II

2) LARGE FIRE SUMMARY
                                                                   %   Est
State    Area                Fire         IMT      6/23    6/26   Con  Con  

 AZ    San Carlos Agency * Calvary         --         -   1,000     0  NEC
       Phoenix District  * White Canyon    --         -   5,000     0  NEC
       Colorado River 
         Agency          * Lost Lake       --         -   1,800    35  NEC

 MN    Superior NF         Gunflint        T2       700   2,922    50  NEC    

 CA    San Diego RU        Butterfield     ST/T2  7,083   7,083    70  CN 6/26

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            1      13        4       0        27       29         74
Acres Burned      1   1,012    5,501       0       142        6      6,662

4) COMMITTED RESOURCES -

               Crews     Engines     Helicopters     Airtankers     Overhead

Federal           34        54           14              10            146
Non-federal        7         4            3               0            133

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

Number of Fires                        41,714                  37,965     
Acres Burned                          669,667                 669,516 

6) SITUATION - Initial attack and large fire activity continued yesterday in
the Southwest, South and East.  Large fires in Canada burned another 390,000
acres (about 2,646,000 acres have burned there to date).

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

[NIFCC Incident Management Situation Report, 6/26]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No notes.

OBSERVATIONS

Today's quote eloquently expresses the importance of protecting battlefields,
and, but extension, other historic sites.  It was passed along by Russ Smith;
other prior contributors to "Observations" have been Jake Hoogland, Paul
Schullery, Debbie Liggett, and Jon Jarvis.

"In great deeds something abides.  On great fields something stays.  Forms
change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for
the vision-place of souls.  And reverent men and women from afar, and
generations that know us not and we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and
by whom great things were suffered, and done for them, shall come to this
deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo! the shadow of the mighty presence
shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their
souls."

                                            General Joshua Lawrence
                                            Chamberlain, Gettysburg,
                                            October 3, 1889

[Do you have a favorite quote about the NPS?  If so, send it along for possible
inclusion in a future Morning Report...]

Prepared by the Division of Ranger Activities, WASO, with the cooperation and
support of Delaware Water Gap NRA.


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