NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT


To:         All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:       Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:   Sunday, August 6, 2000

ALMANAC

On this date in 1990, President George Bush signed legislation 
enlarging the former Tumacacori National Monument in southern Arizona 
and renaming it Tumacacori National Historical Park.  The park 
includes the historic Spanish mission church of San Jose de Tumacacori 
and the mission ruins of San Cayetano de Calabazas and Los Santos 
Angeles de Guevavi, founded by Padre Eusebio Kino in 1691.

INCIDENTS

00-451 - Yellowstone NP (WY) - Serious Employee Injury

On the evening of August 5th, Bruce Sefton, 48, the maintenance 
supervisor for Lake District, fell approximately 15 feet from a roof 
top and sustained serious injuries. Sefton and co-worker Earl McKinney 
had been called out to fix the roof on the Hamilton store at Bridge 
Bay Marina, which began leaking after a heavy rainfall. At the time of 
the accident, they were stapling down plastic sheeting on the 
building's primary roof, which is about 25 feet high. Although Sefton 
was wearing a safety harness and was tied in with fall protection, he 
had to unclip in order to step down to a lower roof, which was about 
15 feet off the ground. He was in the process of cutting off the 
excess plastic sheeting when a gust of wind blew the sheeting around 
his body, causing him to lose balance and flip head over heels onto 
the cement below. McKinney found Sefton lying on his back and left 
side, unconscious and bleeding severely from the back of his head. 
McKinney, an EMT, opened Sefton's airway, maintained cervical spine 
alignment, and attempted to stop the bleeding. He then put out an 
emergency message on the radio requesting assistance. Within minutes, 
rangers, emergency personnel, and the Lake Hospital ambulance were on 
scene and a life flight helicopter had been ordered. Sefton was taken 
to Lake Hospital, then flown to a hospital in Idaho Falls for further 
examination. Doctors determined that he was suffering from 
micro-hemorrhaging in the brain, a pulmonary contusion, multiple 
thoracic spinal fractures, and a deformity to one of his fingers. 
Updates on his condition will be provided as they become available. 
[Keith McAuliffe, Shift Supervisor, Lake Area, YELL, 8/5]

                 [Additional reports pending....]

FIRE SITUATION

NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL - Level V

CURRENT SITUATION

New large fires were reported on Saturday in the same areas as 
Friday - the Rockies, Great Basin and Northwest. Initial attack was 
heavy in Utah, Montana, Oregon and northern California. Large fires 
were contained in the Northwest, Rockies and Great Basin. Some 
resources and two more Type I teams were mobilized by NICC. The 3rd 
Battalion, 5th Marines, is in place on the Clear Creek Fire.

An area command team is managing the large fires in the Bitterroot NF; 
another area command team is assigned to the large fires in the 
Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF. Priorities for fires in the northern Rockies 
and Great Basin are being established by multi-agency coordinating 
groups.

The following resources were committed nationwide as of yesterday 
(changes from yesterday's numbers in parentheses): 667 crews (+ 11), 
6,487 overhead (+ 2,862), 1,067 engines (+ 86), 204 helicopters (+ 
47), and eight air tankers (- 1).

Very high to extreme fire danger indices were reported in many areas 
all eleven Western states.

For more national fire news, go to www.nifc.gov/fireinfo/nfn.html, 
which also provides links to web sites for specific fires.

NPS FIRES

Mesa Verde NP (CO) - Pony Fire: 4,400 acres, 5% containment, Type II 
team (with a Type I team on order), 201 FF/OH. The fire started on the 
Ute Mountain Reservation. Firefighters are concentrating on protection 
of park residences. Four interpretive kiosks burned yesterday. The 
park remains closed; all employees have been evacuated.

Glacier NP (MT) - Parke Peak Fire: 1,200 acres (+ 800), 20% 
containment, 35 FF/OH. The fire spotted over Red Medicine Bow Creek 
yesterday and increased greatly in size. A holding action on the west 
side continues to be successful.

SIGNIFICANT NON-NPS FIRES 

Time constraints preclude a summation of significant fires today. For 
a listing of all project fires, see www.nifc.gov/news/sitreprt.html. 

OUTLOOK

NICC has issued a RED FLAG WARNING for strong winds and low relative 
humidity in central and southern Arkansas.

[NICC Incident Management Situation Report, 8/6]

CULTURAL/NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No submissions.

INTERPRETATION AND VISITOR SERVICES

No submissions.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No submissions.

MEMORANDA

No submissions.

INTERCHANGE

No submissions.

PARKS AND PEOPLE

Entries pending.

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cooperation and support of Delaware Water Gap NRA.

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