NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                               MORNING REPORT

To:         All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:       Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:   Friday, April 30, 1999

INCIDENTS

99-151 - Colorado NM (CO) - Fatality
     
On March 24th, rangers responding to a report of an accident and possible DUI
on the monument's east hill came upon C.P., whose vehicle had run
out of gas.  There were no indications of either an accident or alcohol. 
C.P. was offered a ride into town for gas, but he refused and instead went
off on a hike.  The vehicle had not been moved two days later, so a search
was made of the surrounding area.  There was no sign of C.P..  Ten days
later, C.P.'s mother reported him missing to police in Fruita.  Rangers
continued to search likely areas within the park; sheriff's deputies and BLM
rangers searched adjacent areas.  On April 25th, hikers reported seeing a
body in a remote canyon about a half mile from the point where C.P. was
last seen.  The county's technical rescue team, assisted by rangers,
performed a difficult technical recovery.  The victim was identified as
C.P.  The cause of death has yet been determined.  Rangers, Fruita
police, and the Mesa county coroner are continuing the investigation.  [Ron
Young, CR, COLM, 4/29]

99-152 - Big South Fork NRRA (TN/KY) - Attempted Suicide; Life Saved

A park visitor made a cellular phone call to rangers on April 22nd and
reported that he'd sen a man sitting in a car on the O&W roadway who had cut
his wrist and was bleeding profusely.  Ranger and park medic Julie Parrish
responded.  Parris found G.L. of Oneida, Tennessee, unconscious and
slumped over the steering wheel of his vehicle.  Parrish began EMS treatment,
administering IV fluids and oxygen.  An ambulance eventually arrived, and
treatment continued for another 90 minutes until G.L. was stable enough to
be moved.  Due to road conditions, G.L. was taken by ranger vehicle to the
ambulance, then transported to a hospital for treatment and evaluation.  [F.
Graham, CR, BISO, 4/23]

FIRE ACTIVITY

NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL - Level II

LARGE FIRE/INCIDENT SUMMARY 

                                                     Tue      Wed    %   Est
State      Unit              Fire/Incident   IMT     4/76     4/28  Con  Con

GA   Okefenokee NWR          Hickory Island   --   13,797   14,128   20  NR 

                                  Heading Notes

Unit        Agency = BIA area; NF = national forest; RU = CA state resource
            or ranger unit; RD = state ranger district; District = BLM
            district; NWR = USFWS wildlife refuge
Fire        * = newly reported fire (on this report); Cx = complex; LSS =
            limited suppression strategy; CSS = containment suppression
            strategy
IMT         T1 = Type 1; T2 = Type II; ST = State Team
% Con       Percent of fire contained
Est Con     Estimated containment date; NEC = no estimated date of
            containment; CND = fully contained; NR = no report; LPS = limited
            protection status

NUMBER OF NEW FIRES (FOUR DAY TREND)

                    NPS    BIA      BLM     FWS    States   USFS     Total

Sunday, 4/25         0      0         0       0      167     16       183
Monday, 4/26         0    110         1       0      267     26       404
Tuesday, 4/27        0     53         0       0      139      9       201
Wednesday, 4/28      0     32         0       0       91      8       131

TOTAL COMMITTED RESOURCES (FOUR DAY TREND) 

                  Crews     Engines    Helicopters    Airtankers   Overhead

Sunday, 4/25        23         49          15             0           215
Monday, 4/26        12         24           9             0            85
Tuesday, 4/27       13         43          11             0           175
Wednesday, 4/28     11         36          10             0           147

CURRENT SITUATION

Rain fell in Florida on Wednesday, moderating fire activity.  [NICC Incident
Management Situation Report, 1000 MDT, 4/29]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION

No entries.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

Supreme Court Decision on Carjacking Statute - On March 2nd, the Supreme
Court issued a ruling clarifying an element of the federal carjacking statute
(18 USC 2119).  The statute requires that prosecutors must show that a
perpetrator intended to cause death or serious bodily harm.  The court said
that this requirement is met when the government can prove that the
perpetrator intended to seriously harm or kill the driver in order to steal
the car at the moment when he or she gained or attempted to gain control of
another's automobile.  In the case in question, the perpetrator and an
accomplice, both armed, threatened drivers with a handgun, telling them that
they would be shot if they didn't surrender their keys.  Although no harm
would have come to drivers who turned over their keys, the perpetrator would
have used the weapon if any of them had resisted.  The court found that the
deliberate threat of violence, whether or not it was carried out, meets the
specific intent requirement.  Holloway v. United States, 1999 WL 100910
(U.S.N.Y.).  Contact Don Usher at FLETC (Don Usher at NP-WASO) for the full
text or more information on this or other court decisions.  [This is the
first of a series of updates on Supreme Court decisions that will appear in
the Morning Report.  Don Usher is a lawyer and a legal instructor at FLETC]

MEMORANDA

No entries.

INTERCHANGE

No entries.

PARKS AND PEOPLE

No entries.

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