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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Friday, December 7, 2012 INCIDENTS Eastern Areas Recovery Operations Continue Under Pacific West IMT The Pacific West Incident Management Team is now overseeing the hurricane response. There are 320 National Park Service employees supporting recovery efforts. Today's report 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. Elevators there are inoperable because of four feet of water in the shaft. Fire Island - Crews are restoring the maintenance garage in Patchogue and the Lighthouse Annex. Debris removal at Sailor's Haven continues. Gateway - Resource advisors continue working on mapping wrecked boats and coordinating upcoming boat 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 continues on boarding the windows and doors of the bathhouse. Great Kills - Debris removal operations and sand redistribution continued. Miller Field - Work has been completed and the field is now being used for staging private contractors and equipment. 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. Independence NHP Two Indicted On Felony Assault And Robbery Charges Two men - S.C., 46, and B.C., 25, both of Camden, New Jersey - were indicted on Monday in Federal court on charges stemming from two separate attacks that occurred within the park last June. On June 16th, rangers discovered a man lying on the sidewalk near the intersection of Fourth and Chestnut Streets, suffering from severe head injuries. They provided EMS on scene and transferred him to a local hospital. The man reported that he had been beaten during a robbery. Less than a week later, a second attack occurred at the same location. During this attack, rangers nearby heard screaming and responded in time to prevent serious injury to the victims, but the assailants were able to flee the scene. Rangers Eli Bowers and Sinclare Rehberg were assigned as the case agents. After several months compiling surveillance videos, analyzing evidence, conducting surveillance and interviewing witnesses, they identified the potential suspects and obtained a warrant for their arrest. Rangers, assisted by officers from the Camden County Sheriff's Department, served the warrants on November 21st. The two men are each charged with assault on federal property resulting in serious bodily injury, assault on federal property by striking, beating or wounding, and robbery on federal property. If convicted, each of the defendants faces a statutory maximum sentence of 41 years in prison, a $1.25 million fine, three years of supervised release, and a $500 special assessment. [Patrick Suddath, Chief 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/): President's Park - President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and their daughters lighted the National Christmas Tree yesterday evening at the 90th annual holiday tree lighting ceremony on the Ellipse in President's Park. The White House - President Obama has proclaimed December 7, 2012 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Flags have been ordered to half-staff throughout the day in honor of those who died as a result of their service at Pearl Harbor. Historic Preservation Training Center - Steve Hastings, training manager for the maintenance career field at the Historic Preservation Training Center, will retire on January 3rd after 35 years with the National Park Service. Lake Mead NRA - Pam Witt, a budget analyst for Lake Mead National Recreation Area, is retiring on December 28th after more than 26 years with the park and the National Park Service. Shenandoah NP - William Joseph Cook, 62, a passionate wildlife biologist and advocate for nature conservation and preservation, died on Wednesday, December 5th. Servicewide Training and Conference Calendar - The following have been added to this week's calendar - a webinar next Wednesday on the interagency America the Beautiful pass program, offerings of ICS command and general staff training (H-337) in New York and Colorado, and five new EMS training courses. * * * * 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). --- ### --- |