NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, April 24, 2009

INCIDENTS

Acadia NP

Rangers Rescue Minister Seriously Injured In Fall

Reverend J.D., 55, pastor of a church in Farmington, Connecticut, was seriously injured when he fell on rocks near Otter Cliffs on April 15th. J.D. was hiking along the Shore Path between Otter Cliffs and Otter Point when he apparently lost his footing and fell about 15 feet onto the rocks below. Rescue crews were able to reach J.D. and haul him back up. A LifeFlight helicopter landed on the Otter Cove causeway and took J.D. to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, where he was treated for a broken thigh bone. The rescue took about 40 minutes. Park rangers were joined by rescuers from Bar Harbor Fire and Police departments, Mount Desert Police Department and MDI Search and Rescue. [News reports]

Fort Smith NHS

Cannonball Brought To Park VC Proves To Be Ornament

As was reported in Wednesday's edition, a local homeowner brought what appeared to be a Civil War cannonball that he'd dug up in his garden into the park's visitor center on the morning of April 21st. Rangers got it out of the building and it was subsequently removed from the park by members of a local bomb squad. After some effort, they were finally able to take a good X-ray of the cannonball and determined that it was solid, not hollow. When they cleaned up the area around what had appeared to be a fuse, they found that it was in all probability a snapped-off stem of some type. Further investigation revealed that it might be the top of an iron ornamental fence - or it might have been a cannonball used as a post top, a fashion found elsewhere in the area. It will likely be donated to the bomb squad for training purposes. “Overall, it was a picture perfect exercise,” said superintendent Bill Black.”The city police did exactly what they needed to do, the bomb squad responded and handled the situation professionally and it was all taken care of in one hour.” [Jackie Henman, MWRO]

OTHER NEWS

The following stories are among those in today's edition of InsideNPS:

Minute Man NHP - The historically significant Colonel Barrett House and Farm have been added to the park through the recent passage of the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act. The farm was a key target of the British expedition to seize arms and ammunition in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1775.

HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Announcements&id=7598" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Announcements&id=7598

Intermountain Region - Darla Sidles, deputy superintendent at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, has been named superintendent of Saguaro National Park.

HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=PeopleNews&id=2315" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=PeopleNews&id=2315

Intermountain Region - Jason Lott, superintendent at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, has been named superintendent of Bandelier National Monument.

HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=PeopleNews&id=2316" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=PeopleNews&id=2316

Training Calendar - A listing of upcoming training courses offered by the NPS and its partners across the nation. Two items have been added this week - an announcement of the 2009 on-line records management and Privacy Act training courses and a course on IPM principles that will be offered at Homestead.

HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Conferences&id=1722" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Conferences&id=1722

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Submission standards for the Morning Report can be found at the following web site:

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

Prepared by the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, with the support of the Office of the Chief Information Officer and Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@nps.gov).

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