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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT
To: All National Park Service Areas and Offices From: Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office Day/Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 INCIDENTS 02-007 - Big Bend NP (TX) - MVA with Fatality As rangers were gathering at the park's emergency services building on the morning of January 9th to begin EMS training, dispatch received a report of a single vehicle rollover accident on Maverick Road at the west end of the park. All necessary resources were dispatched to the scene, including Terlingua medics and the park's ambulance and structural fire engine and crews. They found that a 1987 Ford Bronco II had rolled several times about a half mile down the dirt road from the park entrance. The five people in the vehicle - a young woman, her two children, ages one and five, her 17-year-old nephew, and her 68-year old mother-in-law --all sustained injuries and were transported to Big Bend Regional Hospital. The older woman's injuries proved fatal. None of the passengers was wearing a seatbelt. Excessive speed for conditions was a contributing factor. [Marcos Paredes, IC, BIBE, 1/11] 02-008 - Natchez Trace Parkway (MS/AL/TN) - Apparent Suicide Rangers investigated a report of a gunshot victim at Pharr Mounds in the park's Tupelo District in the early morning hours of January 9th and found the body of a 19-year-old male who had evidently died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. They learned that his parents had notified family friends when he failed to return home the previous evening, and that his body had been found by some of those friends while in the process of checking places he liked to visit. [Jackie Henman, ACR, NATR, 1/10] * * * * * Prepared by the Division of Ranger Activities, WASO, with the cooperation and support of Delaware Water Gap NRA. --- ### --- |