NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Thursday, December 6, 2012

INCIDENTS

Eastern Areas

Pacific West IMT Assumes Management Of Hurricane Response

The Intermountain Incident Management Team continues to oversee the Hurricane Sandy response, but the Pacific West IMT will transition into the role today. Currently, there are 264 National Park Service employees supporting the recovery efforts. Today's report is as follows (if a park or site is not listed, that's because there's no new information to report):

Ellis Island - Contractors continued with hazard mitigation work planning.

Morristown - Chipping and debris removal continue.

Fire Island - Crews are restoring the maintenance garage in Patchogue and the Lighthouse Annex.

Gateway - A cultural resource advisor worked on mapping wrecked boats and coordinating upcoming board removals. The following actions were also reported at park units:

Fort Tilden - Road and trail operations, building utility repairs, and sand redistribution continued.

Jacob Riis Park - Road and trail clearing and sand redistribution continued. Work has begun on boarding the windows and doors of the bathhouse.

Great Kills - Debris removal operations and sand redistribution continued.

Miller Field - Sand redistribution has been completed, and equipment is being moved to Great Kills to support debris and sand removal there

Fort Wadsworth - Debris removal continued at Seabee Park.

Sandy Hook - Debris removal from roadsides and beach plazas continued, as did replacement of oil tank gauges and the construction and placement of shutters on exposed windows and doors on buildings at Fort Hancock. Work also continued on repairing the main waterline.

More information on the response can be found at these websites:

Hurricane response and recovery - A HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/waso/waso.cfm?prg=1168&lv=3" webpage with current information on the NPS response to Hurricane Sandy.

Resource needs shopping list - A HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/waso/custommenu.cfm?lv=3&prg=1168&id=10935" ”shopping list” HYPERLINK "http://classicinside.nps.gov/documents/SHOPPING%20LIST%2011-5.pdf" of incident management team positions that still need to be filled, updated daily.

Hurricane Sandy relief fund - E&AA has set up a HYPERLINK "http://www.eparks.com/_" relief fund web page where you can make donations in support of employees who were affected by the storm.

Facebook - A HYPERLINK "https://www.facebook.com/HurricaneResponseNPS" Facebook page managed by the IMT with updates on the response.

Twitter - A HYPERLINK "http://mobile.twitter.com/NPS_Sandy?" Twitter page managed by the IMT with updates on the response.

Flickr - A HYPERLINK "http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandyresponsenps/sets/72157631954446291/" Flickr page managed by the IMT with images of the response.

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/):

Eastern Areas - Crews have completed dismantling damaged boardwalks in the park and are now taking on the removal of huge amounts of debris at Sailor's Haven. In addition to NPS facilities, an estimated 2,200 island homes were damaged, resulting in large debris piles of vegetation and lumber.

Intermountain Region - About two dozen hardly souls gathered in subfreezing temperatures on November 29th to mark the 148th anniversary of the Plains Indian Wars atrocity that bears the park's name. The observance completed a series of anniversary events, including an annual healing run and the burial of two victims whose remains were recently repatriated under NAGPRA.

Alaska Region - Don Striker has been selected as the new superintendent of Denali National Park and Preserve. He has been the superintendent at New River Gorge for the past five years.

NPS Alumni - Retired ranger Duncan Hollar died on Thursday, November 29th, of a brain aneurysm that occurred suddenly and unexpectedly two days before. He was 62 years old.

NPS Alumni - Retired career ranger Bud Estey passed away last month. He was one day shy of his 91st birthday and was living with his wife Cleo in Norfolk, Nebraska.

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

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