NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

INCIDENTS

Olympic NP

Injured Hiker Evacuated From Lake Crescent Area

A 15-year-old boy who sustained leg injuries in a fall late Sunday afternoon has been flown out of the area in a coordinated rescue effort involving rangers and U.S. Coast Guard and Clallam County Search & Rescue personnel. The boy was day hiking on the Pyramid Peak Trail with members of his family on Sunday when he fell approximately 150 feet down a 400-foot rock slide that crosses the trail, sustaining leg injuries that prevented him from walking out. The park was notified of the accident around 4 p.m. and had a rescue team onsite by 7 p.m. A second team of rangers arrived shortly thereafter. Due to the extremely steep terrain and inclement weather, an after-dark rescue was ruled out, so the rangers set up an overnight shelter for the boy and his father and stayed with them through the night. Weather conditions remained favorable throughout Monday morning, and a U.S. Coast Guard rescuer was lowered to the ground with a rescue basket in the late morning. Personnel from the park and county SAR team and the Coast Guard rescuer prepared the hiker to be airlifted out. He was then hoisted in the basket up to the helicopter and transported to Port Angeles. The Pyramid Peak Trail is located on the north side of Lake Crescent and approximately 20 miles west of Port Angeles. [Barb Maynes, Public Affairs Officer]

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/):

Office of Communications - A previously unknown burial ground was found earlier this month at Kingsley Plantation. The burial ground, with six early 19th Century interments, is believed to be a slave cemetery.

Grand Canyon NP - RV Ward, the park's wildlife biologist and wildlife program manager recently retired following a government career that spanned almost 40 years.

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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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