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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Friday, January 10, 2014 INCIDENTS Canyonlands NP Two Hikers Rescued In Needles District On January 7th, a team of San Juan county rescuers led by a ranger and a medical flight crew led by a ranger saved the lives of two hikers in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. Four people were hiking over a snow-covered slickrock pass when one of them slid down a slab and over a cliff, stopping short of going over another cliff. He sustained life threatening injuries in the fall. His wife nearly suffered the same fate when attempting to contact her husband; she became stranded at the precarious area where her husband started to slide. The teams employed technical rescue techniques and evacuated both patients. The husband was flown directly to a hospital. His wife was treated for hypothermia and was able to hike out. [Kevin Moore, Supervisory Park 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/): Office of the Associate Director for Information Resources - On January 1st, a power failure caused a catastrophic technology event and outage in the NPS Data Center in Denver. Around the clock efforts have been underway since then to repair and restore systems and files. DeSoto NM - On Saturday, December 21st, De Soto hosted its fifth annual Winter Luminary Festival, which was attended by 1,800 visitors. Office of Communications - The NPS has awarded more than $2.2 million in historic preservation grants to 135 American Indian tribes. The grants assist tribes in carrying out national historic preservation program responsibilities on tribal lands. Lake Mead NRA - Sue Huber-Huffman retired from Lake Mead National Recreation Area on January 2nd. She had worked at Lake Mead NRA since August 1980, and was just shy of having served 40 years with the National Park Service. Cabrillo NM - Jason Richards, chief of interpretation at Cabrillo, and Barbara Richards, the park's administrative officer, will retire on January 30th after serving the National Park Service for a combined 48 plus years. Servicewide Training Calendar - Added to today's calendar are the following - an annual law enforcement refresher course at Jean Lafitte and the first three of a coming series of WebEx training courses on use of WebEx. * * * * The Morning Report is 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@contractor.nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov). --- ### --- |