NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                               MORNING REPORT

To:         All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:       Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:   Monday, November 1, 1999

INCIDENTS

99-634 - Great Smoky Mountains NP (NC/TN) - Pursuit; Arrest

Ranger Gene Wesloh attempted to stop a vehicle for speeding on the Newfound
Gap Road just north of Cherokee on the evening of October 21st.  The driver
refused to stop and continued into Tennessee at an even higher speed.  Other
rangers picked up the pursuit near Gatlinburg, where the driver attempted to
ram ranger Jerry Grubb's vehicle.  Gatlinburg police took the lead as the
chase went through that town; Pigeon Forge and Sevierville officers assumed
the lead through their jurisdictions.  When the driver headed north on I-81,
the Tennessee Highway Patrol took over.  He finally crashed his vehicle about
80 miles from the point where the pursuit began and fled on foot.  His
twelve-year-old passenger was taken to a county hospital for evaluation.  The
suspect was arrested by state officers on the 23rd.  Newspaper reports said
that numerous vehicles were sideswiped and damaged during the chase, and that
the driver was unrepentant and boastful at the time of his arrest.  There
were two outstanding felony warrants on him at the time of the chase. 
Multiple federal and state charges are pending.  [Jason Houck, CR, GRSM,
10/25]

99-635 - San Juan NHS (PR) - Fugitive Arrested

Rangers Andres Maos and Freddie Aledo contacted a homeless man who was living
on the grounds of Fort San Felipe del Morro.  Aledo ran a check on him on
NCIC and found that he was R.W., a fugitive from California, who had
an outstanding warrant against him for trafficking in and sale of guns and
narcotics.  Puerto Rico police were notified and R.W. was arrested.  He will
be extradited and escorted back to California.  [Freddie Aledo, SAJU, 10/28]

                        [Several reports pending....]

FIRE ACTIVITY

NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL - Level II

LARGE FIRE/INCIDENT SUMMARY 

                                                     Wed     Sat     %  Est
State      Unit              Fire/Incident  IMT      10/27   10/30  Con Con
 
CA    Shasta-Trinity NF      Big Bar Cx     AC/2T1 137,820  138,960  95 10/31
      Los Padres NF          Kirk Cx        T2      86,700   86,700  95 UNK 
      San Diego RU           Lost           --         400      317 100 CND  

ID    Sawtooth NF            Queasy         --       3,000    3,225 100 CND 

MN    State                  McGrath        --         580      700 100 CND  
                           * Blaine         --           -      200 100 CND  

MI    Huron-Manistee NF    * Wagner Lake    --           -      100  20 UNK

IN    State                * Camp Atterbury --           -      500  75 10/31

                                  Heading Notes

Unit        Agency or Area Office = BIA area; NF = national forest; RU = CA
            state resource or ranger unit; RD = CA state ranger district;
            Region = CA state region; FO = BLM field office; District = BLM
            district; NWR = USFWS wildlife refuge
Fire        * = newly reported fire (on this report); Cx = complex 
IMT         AC = Area Command; T1 = Type I Team; T2 = Type II Team; T3 = Type
            III Team; ST = State Team; FUM = Fire Use Management Team
% Con       Percent of fire contained: UNK = unknown; NR = no report
Est Con     Estimated containment date: NEC = no estimated date of
            containment; CND = fully contained; UNK = unknown; NR = no
            report; RBF = resource benefit fire, no containment action being
            taken; LR = last report unless significant activity occurs

NUMBER OF NEW FIRES (FOUR DAY TREND)

                    NPS    BIA      BLM     FWS    States   USFS     Total
 
Wednesday, 10/27     3      2         3       0       95     20       123
Thursday, 10/28      2      5        11       0      163     13       194
Friday, 10/29        1      6         5       0      147     11       170
Saturday, 10/30      0     15         2       0       25      8        50

TOTAL COMMITTED RESOURCES (FOUR DAY TREND) 

                  Crews     Engines    Helicopters    Airtankers   Overhead

Wednesday, 10/27    95        228          24             1           749
Thursday, 10/28     77        105          23             0           644
Friday, 10/29       35         69          18             0           677
Saturday, 10/30     32         54          15             0           641

CURRENT SITUATION

Moderate initial attack was reported in southern California on Saturday, but
there was little activity elsewhere.  Very high to extreme fire indices were
reported in California, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, Colorado, and Indiana.  [NICC
Incident Management Situation Report, 10/29-31]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, PROTECTION AND EDUCATION 

No entries.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No entries.

MEMORANDA

No entries.

INTERCHANGE

No entries.

PARKS AND PEOPLE

No entries.

WEB DIRECTORY

The updated NPS web directory follows as a separate message.

A big 'thank you' to Glenda Jackson from WASO Natural Resources Information
Division (NRID) in Fort Collins, who cross-checked and updated this list and 
developed a "web friendly" listing, and to NPS web master Steve Pittleman,
who arranged to have the listing posted on the NPS web page.  You can find it
at http://www.nps.gov/refdesk, under the heading "ParkNet Quick Index."

Thanks also to the following for providing this month's additions:  

o     Bob Huggins - A new Library of Congress site entitled "Mapping the
      National Parks," which consists of 200 maps dating from the 17th
      century to the present and focusing on Yellowstone, Acadia, Great Smoky
      Mountains and Grand Canyon.
o     Chris Noble - Multi-agency fire training information.
o     Diana Smith - The NPS Y2K project web site.
o     Helen Scully - National Heritage Areas web site (comments on the new
      site are welcome and should be addressed to her via cc:Mail).
o     John Beaver - The web site for obtaining Boy Scout hat presses for
      ranger flathats.
o     Linda Canzanelli - Fed Gateway (fedgate.org), a one-stop access site to
      many/most federal web sites.
o     Gayle Lopez - Another site for obtaining NPS forms.
o     Jackie Smalls - The new DOI safety information site 
      (http://safetynet.smis.doi.gov); it replaces the old one
      (http://safety.doi.gov), which is no longer active.
o     Cassie Thomas - The NPS web site for National Wild and Scenic Rivers
o     Jil Swearingen and Gerald McCrea - The revised site for exotic plants
      in parks and the listing for the site for native plants in parks.
o     Gerald McCrea - The CDC site on hantavirus.
o     Joel Wright - Corrections to the addresses for the USGS digital map and
      data site and the USGS 'maps in progress' site.
o     Glenda Jackson - Along with developing the web site with all these
      listings, she also made corrections to a number of sites and provided
      the I&M listings.
o     Kendra Peel - The new NPS directory page.

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