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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT BLACKBERRY EDITION Wednesday, February 15, 2006 =============================================================================================================== INCIDENTS Death Valley NP Passenger in Pickup Killed in Accident On the evening of Friday, February 10th, rangers and a visitor use assistant responded to a report of an accident with injuries at the Panamint Springs Resort, a private inholding within the park. A 28-year-old man from Pahrump, Nevada, had been riding in the bed of a pickup truck when he fell out and sustained a massive head injury. The accident scene was found to be on Lake Hill Road in Panamint Valley within the park's boundary. The truck had been traveling south when the driver swerved left to avoid a washout. The truck then swerved to the right across the roadway and struck a second washout, at which time the man was ejected from the pickup's bed. His injuries proved to be fatal. Investigation revealed that a resort maintenance employee had been driving the pickup. He was taken to the Inyo County jail. Evidence suggests that the deceased passenger was intoxicated when he fell from the truck. His body was released to the county coroner. Both of the deceased's parents worked at the resort and were on scene when rescue units arrived. The mother had been a passenger in the front of the pickup when the accident occurred. The California Highway Patrol is the lead agency in the investigation. [Nancy Wizner, Chief Ranger] Delaware Water Gap NRA Park Resident Killed in Motor Vehicle Accident A 59-year-old woman who lived in the park was killed in a single-vehicle accident on Old Mine Road about two miles south of Millbrook Village in the park's New Jersey District on the afternoon of Monday, February 13th. She was driving southbound on Old Mine Road when her 2003 Subaru Outback went off the left side of the road, back onto the roadway, back to the left again into an embankment, then rolled onto its left side on the road. She was killed instantly. The first notification of the accident came through a 911 phone call to Warren County. Responding to the accident were local fire and EMS units, New Jersey State Police officers, and National Park Service rangers. The woman's house had been acquired by the Corps of Engineers as part of the overall acquisition of land for the now-defunct Tock's Island Dam project. She continued to reside there under the terms of a special use permit that was continued by the National Park Service, maintaining the historic property. The cause of the accident is unknown. New Jersey State Police troopers and NPS rangers are conducting a joint investigation into the accident. [Bill Halainen] JOBS
Zion NP GS-303-6/7 Supervisory Visitor Use Assistant Zion National Park is advertising a vacancy announcement for a supervisory visitor use assistant. This GS-303-6/7 position is currently open on USAJOBS, vacancy announcement number ZION-DEU-06-25, and closes on February 17th. The person in this position is one of three field supervisors in the fee management branch and is directly supervised by the fee program manager. He/she directly supervises the ten permanent and seasonal visitor use assistants who work at the park's three entrance stations, two campgrounds, and two traffic control stations for the Zion-Mt. Carmel Tunnel. Zion National Park has a yearly visitation of 2.4 million and collects approximately $7,000,000 annually in fee revenue. The person in this position will have a major role in this program as a member of the branch's management team. Zion National Park is located in southwestern Utah. Zion is an ancient Hebrew word meaning a place of refuge or sanctuary. Protected within the park's 229 square miles is a dramatic landscape of sculptured canyons and soaring cliffs. Zion is located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert provinces. This unique geography and the variety of life zones within the park make Zion significant as a place of unusual plant and animal diversity. If you would like more information about this position in an incredibly diverse and beautiful park, please call Zion fee program manager Shelagh Forester at 435-772-7816. * * * * * Prepared by Visitor and Resource Protection, WASO, with the cooperation and support of Delaware Water Gap NRA. --- ### --- |