NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:           All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:         Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:     Tuesday, August 13, 2002

*** NOTICE ***

Director Mainella has authorized the lowering of all flags to half-staff
at parks and NPS offices across the nation until further notice in
memory of Park Police officer Hakim Farthing and NPS ranger Kris Eggle.
Uniformed employees are authorized to wear black bands on their badges;
non-uniformed employees may wear black mourning devices similar to those
worn after September 11th.

INCIDENTS

02-370 - Organ Pipe Cactus NM (AZ) - Follow-up: Ranger Shot and Killed

The Intermountain Region has established an internal web site to
commemorate Kris Eggle. You can offer your thoughts and condolences on
this web site and view the thoughts of others about Kris. The content of
the web site will be given to Kris' parents after people have had a
chance to contribute to it. The address:
http://im.den.nps.gov.commemorate.cfm. [Rick Frost, PIO, IMRO]

02-371 - Baltimore-Washington Parkway (MD) - Follow-up: Park Police
Officer Killed

No information is yet available on the funeral for Hakim Farthing. It
will be posted as soon as it is made public. [Scott Fears, PIO, USPP]

[Additional reports pending. . . . .]

FIRE MANAGEMENT

National Fire Situation

Preparedness Level 4 - The preparedness level has done down one step.
Preparedness Level 5 drops to Preparedness Level 4 when there are no
resource shortages or competition for resources. Fifty rested crews are
available for new fires. No red flag conditions are forecast for the
next 24 hours and favorable weather conditions are forecast for the next
three to five day period.

 Initial attack was light everywhere yesterday. Only three of the 272
 newly reported fires became project fires. Another four large fires
 were contained.

Very high to extreme fire indices were reported in the following states:

*     Continued from yesterday - Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho,
Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota,
Utah, Washington and Wyoming. 
*     Added today - None.
*     Removed today - None.

National Resource Commitments

                    Mon     Tue     Wed     Thu     Fri     Sat     Sun     Mon
Date                8/5     8/6     8/7     8/8     8/9     8/10    8/11    8/12
                    
Crews               589     566     548     566     564     561     518     503
Engines             1,028   874     906     865     876     820     734     754
Helicopters         177     153     160     158     164     160     152     140
Air Tankers         9       10      4       4       3       2       3       7
Overhead            4,712   3,838   4,385   3,989   3,741   3,667   3,429   3,707
Area Commands       1       1       2       2       1       1       1       1
Type 1 IMT          6       6       5       5       5       4       5       5
Type 2 IMT          6       6       5       5       5       5       5       5
T1/T2 S/IMT *       3       3       2       2       2       2       1       0
Fire Use IMT        0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0

* Type 1 and Type 2 state incident management teams
# Information not available

National Fire Warnings and Watches

NIFC has issued a RED FLAG WARNING for gusty east winds and low relative
humidity for portions of western Oregon and the southern Washington
Cascades.

Park Fire Situation

Redwood N&SP (CA) - The Biscuit Fire Zone 2 (24,952 acres, 80%
containment) remains on the northeast side of the North Fork of the
Smith River. Fire line is now in place around the east, south and west
portions of fire and recent burnout operations have been successful.
Roads and services are still open in the park although fire restrictions
are in place in the backcountry along with a ban on smoking except in
developed areas due to extreme fire danger. For more information:
www.r5.fs.fed.us/sixrivers/incident/biscuit

Dinosaur NM (CO) - The Iron Mine Draw Fire (a single tree) is showing no
activity currently. Four fires were sparked by a storm with lightning on
August 7; all were single trees and are being monitored.

Curecanti NRA (CO) - The Vulcan Fire (165 acres, 90% containment) is 13
miles southwest of Gunnison in the vicinity of Curecanti NRA. No smoke
is visible at the park and there's been no effect on park operations.

Yellowstone NP (WY) - The Phlox Fire (78 acres) is currently staffed
with four fire use monitors; four additional fire effects monitors are
to be added. A spike camp has been established south of the fire on Two
Ocean Plateau. The Snowslide Fire (less than an acre) is contained. The
Broad Fire (9,140 acres, 95% containment) showed no activity yesterday.

Great Smoky Mountains NP (NC/TN) - The Double Mountain Fire (15 acres,
lightning-caused) was declared contained on August 9th. Monitoring will
continue.

Sequoia and Kings Canyon NP's (CA) - The Bubbs Creek Fire (20 acres,
human-caused) is listed as contained at Kings Canyon NP. The Slide Fire
is still active and is being managed along with three wildland fire use
fires (Slide, Moraine, and Fallen Moon). Moraine and Fallen Moon are not
active at this time. The McNalley Fire (130,590 acres and 70% contained)
is on the Sequoia National Forest. For more information on McNally:
www.r5.fs.fed.us/sequoia/incident/mcnalley.html

Yosemite NP (CA) - The Wolf Complex (Wolf, Lukens, Morrison and Marshall
Fires) is being managed as a wildland fire use complex. The combined
acreage is approximately 190 acres. The fire is visible from Tioga Road.
The fire is burning in sparse fuels (lodgepole pine and red fir). A
field crew will begin to thin the fuels around the historic lodge at
White Wolf. Some spotting but little growth was observed over the
weekend.

For additional information on all fires, check the following web sites:

*     Map of fire locations - http://www.nifc.gov/fireinfo/firemap.html 
*     Details on all current major fires - http://www.nifc.gov/news/sitreprt.pdf 
*     Fire news and fire year in perspective - http://www.nifc.gov/fireinfo/nfn.html. 

[NICC Incident Management Situation Report; Judy Chetwin, Fire Information Desk, NIFC]

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Prepared by the Division of Ranger Activities, WASO, with the cooperation and support of 
Delaware Water Gap NRA.

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