NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Friday, May 10, 2013
INCIDENTS
New River Gorge NR
Man Electrocuted In Attempted Copper Theft
Rangers responded on Wednesday morning to a 911 call regarding a man who had possibly been electrocuted while attempting to steal copper power lines. The incident occurred on Beury Mountain, a remote area of the park in the southeast corner of Fayette County that is accessible by a single dirt road. By chance, a field training ranger and a trainee ranger were on patrol in that area when the incident occurred. Three other rangers responded from the nearby historic town of Thurmond. The FTR and the trainee ranger arrived on scene first within eight minutes of the initial call. They were flagged down by a man who told them that he and another man had been shooting copper power lines down with a .22 rifle. He told rangers that the injured man had grabbed a loose power line to pull it down and it had struck a live wire. The injured man was lying within the area of downed wires and was unresponsive during attempts to communicate with him. Appalachian Power Company was soon on scene and confirmed power was off to the wires around the unresponsive man. EMS personnel evaluated him and determined that he'd died. Rangers detained the other man and during the investigation determined that the incident had occurred on private property outside the park boundary. The man was turned over to Fayette County deputies. Rangers assisted Fayette County detectives, local EMS, the medical examiner's office, and Appalachian Power throughout the rest of the morning and into the afternoon. The surviving man was charged by Fayette County with attempt to commit a felony, conspiracy to commit a felony, and disruption of a public utility, which is also a felony. [Jeff West, 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/):
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro NHT - National Trails Intermountain Region has partnered with the Pueblo of Pojoaque in New Mexico to tell stories of pueblo life before 1598 (pre-contact), after 80 years of Spanish influence (contact), during the Pueblo Revolt in 1680, and today via exhibits on the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail.
Workplace Enrichment - The Office of Personnel Management is now in the process of sending the Employee Viewpoint Survey to a random selection of NPS employees.
Wilderness Stewardship - The “Wilderness Forever” public photography competition is now accepting images illustrating the majesty, diversity, and value of our nation's wilderness areas.
Intermountain Region - Jacqueline Lavelle has been named superintendent of Grant-Kohrs Ranch NHS in Montana. She follows Laura Rotegard, who was named superintendent of the Horace M. Albright Training Center.
Timpanogos Cave NM - Mike Gosse, chief ranger at Timpanogos Cave, will retire from the NPS on May 11th. He will be hanging up his duty belt and flat hat and taking a position as deputy district ranger on the Ocala National Forest in Florida.
Upcoming Online Training Calendar - Added to this week's calendar are the following - a webinar on FBMS programming and FMSS tracking (offered on four separate dates), a webinar on disaster preparedness for cultural resources, a series of six webinars on climate change leadership between this month and October, and a webinar on challenge and change in the workplace.
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