NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, May 18, 2007

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INCIDENTS

Golden Gate NRA

Falling Fatality At Battery Crosby

On the afternoon of Tuesday, May 16th, park dispatch received a 911 transfer call from San Francisco FD reporting a falling accident. Two beach-goers came upon an unresponsive man in his 30s lying on a coastal rock outcropping in front of Battery Crosby. The man had apparently tried to hike from the battery to the beach on a steep, unstable social trail and had slipped and fallen from 15 to 20 feet. Rangers, Park Police officers, Presidio and San Francisco FD firefighters, and Golden Gate Aquatic Rescue personnel responded. Land and water rescue efforts were hampered by the terrain. A Coast Guard helicopter was accordingly summoned to retrieve the man's body. The victim was hoisted to the helicopter on a litter, then flown to a landing zone at Fort Scott. Park Police investigators and staff from the city medical examiner's officer are conducting a follow-up investigation. [Kim Coast, Operations Supervisor]

OTHER NEWS

The following stories can be read on either the InsideNPS web site (if you are within the National Park Service) or at the InsideNPS public ‘news digest' site (if you are outside of the NPS). The web sites appear below:

Pinnacles NM - One of three juvenile California condors released from the park over the past two weeks died last Saturday of unknown causes. An interagency investigation is underway.

Office of Legislative and Congressional Affairs - This week's update on past and upcoming hearings and the status of legislation pertinent to the National Park Service.

To see the above articles, go to InsideNPS ( HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/" http://inside.nps.gov/) or NPS Digest ( HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/). For NPS incident reporting standards, go to HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=viewnpsnewsarticle&type=Announcements&id=3363" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=viewnpsnewsarticle&type=Announcements&id=3363

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Prepared by the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, with the cooperation and support of Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Edited by Bill Halainen ( Bill_Halainen@nps.gov, 570-426-2430).

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