NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Thursday, October 13, 2011

INCIDENTS

Shenandoah NP

Two Killed In Head-On Collision

On Sunday, October 9th, rangers responded to a motor vehicle accident on Skyline Drive involving a sedan and a motorcycle. Two motorcycle riders, a 59-year-old man and his 54-year-old wife, were found unresponsive in the roadway. Rangers and Warren County EMS provided care and transported both people via ambulance to a nearby landing zone to rendezvous with a medevac helicopter. Despite ALS intervention, the woman was pronounced dead shortly after the accident. The man was flown to Winchester Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead several hours later. The occupants of the sedan were uninjured. Evidence and witness statements suggest that the sedan was attempting to pull into an overlook when the motorcycle operator rounded a corner too fast, lost control, and slid head-on into the sedan. [Stu Curtin, Park Ranger]

OTHER NEWS

The following stories are among those in today's edition of InsideNPS. To see the full text, including images, NPS employees should go to the InsideNPS home page ( HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index). Non-NPS employees can see most of them on the NPS Digest page ( HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/):

Fire and Aviation Management - Fire Prevention Week began on Sunday and continues through this coming Saturday. Each day's lead story this week will accordingly be on an aspect of fire protection in the NPS. Today's focus is on the women and men who work to prevent fires in the parks and fight them when necessary.

Uniform Program - On October 4th, a bid protest was filed with the Government Accountability Office challenging the recent award of the NPS uniform contract. The contract has been suspended pending resolution of the protest.

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The Morning Report is a publication of the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, produced with the support of the Office of the Assistant Director for Information Resources and the Office of the Chief Information Officer. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@nps.gov).

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