NPS Morning Report - Friday, October 5, 2001



                        NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT


To:         All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:       Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:   Friday, October 5, 2001

INCIDENTS

01-541 - Glen Canyon NRA (AZ/UT) - Special Event

On September 15th, the first annual National Public Lands Day event was 
held at Lake Powell in conjunction with International Coastal Cleanup 
Day. A total of 110 volunteers united to remove graffiti and cleanup 
trash in the park. About 20 miles of shoreline were cleaned of 300 
pounds of garbage, including two full portable toilets. Wire brushes 
and spray bottles were used to remove nearly 600 inscriptions from 
sandstone along the lake's shoreline. Volunteers from local businesses 
and service organizations worked side by side with park and interagency 
personnel. [Eileen Martinez, Subdistrict Interpreter, Wahweap 
Subdistrict, GLCA, 10/3]

FIRE MANAGEMENT

National Fire Situation - Preparedness Level 2

Two Type 1 teams are assigned to FEMA to support operations in New 
York City: 

o       Lohrey's team is managing warehouse operations at Pier 36 and 
        three distribution centers in New York City. A fourth 
        distribution center is being completed and will be stocked in 
        the near future.

o       Bateman's team is operating in two separate locations - one 
        group is at the Duane Street Fire Station and is involved in 
        activities that include documentation and mapping support; the 
        other group is at the Javits Convention Center and is checking 
        in personnel and tracking resources at the World Trade Center 
        site.

Initial attack was again light nationwide on Wednesday. 

Very high to extreme fire indices were reported in Arizona, 
California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Oregon, Texas, 
Washington and Wyoming.

Park Fire Situation

Glacier NP (MT) - Rehabilitation efforts continue on the Moose fire 
(71,000 acres, 88% contained). Total resource commitment at present: 
280 firefighters and overhead personnel, six engines, three 
helicopters.

[NICC Incident Management Situation Report, 10/4]

FOOTNOTE

While en route back home to Delaware Water Gap from a week in 
Washington with the national Type 1 incident management team, I 
stopped at Gettysburg on a wonderfully mild and sunny afternoon to 
take a long walk along the Union lines to Little Round Top, around the 
Peach Orchard and back up to the high point of Pickett's Charge. The 
week had included both a trip into downtown New York City and a drive 
past the Pentagon, and a visit to Gettysburg - scene of so much 
national tragedy and sacrifice - seemed in order to help put those two 
experiences into perspective. By chance, the walk took me up Sickles 
Avenue. In a field on some higher ground on the west side of the road 
stood a statue outlined against the sky; immediately evident was that 
one of the two figures was wearing a fireman's hat. Closer inspection 
revealed that it was a memorial to the 73rd New York Infantry, also 
known as the Second Fire Zouaves - a regiment "composed almost 
entirely of volunteer firemen from New York City and its boroughs, men 
who enlisted as volunteer soldiers with the assurance that they would 
still be carried as active firemen on the rolls of volunteer fire 
departments back home." Fifty-one members of the 73rd were killed in 
the fighting there; another 103 were wounded and eight were recorded 
as missing. The remarkable statue is of a fireman and a soldier, hands 
linked. It seemed a fitting epitaph, a summary statement that needed 
no further elaboration. You can see the statue and plaque and learn 
about the Second Fire Zouaves on the park's web site: 
http://www.nps.gov/gett/gettregts/nyi73.htm. 

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