NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

INCIDENTS

Shenandoah NP

Husband, Wife Seriously Injured In Separate Accidents

On Friday, September 27th, rangers responded to two separate medicals involving a married couple at the Big Meadows Campground, both requiring air evacuation.  

The original call was for the wife, who'd broken her femur in a fall while getting out of their car at a Big Meadows campsite, but the first ranger on scene reported that her husband had also suffered an injury. He'd reported his wife's injury to the campground staff, but fell from his bicycle while returning to the campsite and sustained significant facial trauma accompanied with memory loss. 

The Stanley Volunteer Rescue Squad transported one of the victims and rangers transported the other in the park ambulance to the landing zone. Both were flown to the University of Virginia Medical Center. 

[Mike Michener, Deputy Chief Ranger]

OTHER NEWS

The following stories are among those in today's InsideNPS. To see the full text, 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 Morning Report web page ( HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/" http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/):

Gettysburg NMP - Gettysburg National Military Park yesterday marked the 150th anniversary of the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, an event which was highlighted by Abraham Lincoln delivering his immortal Gettysburg Address. 

Bent's Old Fort NHS - Bent's Old Fort NHS is partnering with Colorado Parks and Wildlife and nearby Otero Junior College to provide monarch butterfly tagging events to school groups and the public. 

Mississippi NR&RA - The park recently received the 2013 Minneapolis - St. Paul Commuter Choice Award for its alternative transportation project, which seeks to get visitors to the river without a car.

Aztec Ruins NM - Tracy Bodnar, the park's chief of resources and visitor services, will be retiring on November 30th. Over her 32-year career, she has worked in interpretation, protection, management, curation, and natural resources in 13 parks.

Midwest Region - Steve Thede, currently deputy superintendent at Badlands NP, begins his new assignment as superintendent of Niobrara NSR on December 2nd.

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