NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, February 7, 2014

INCIDENTS

Grand Canyon NP

Visitor Dies Despite Concerted Efforts By EMS Staff

On Saturday, January 25th, an ailing 66-year-old visitor died at Flagstaff Medical Center despite being revived several times by park EMS personnel and by center medical staff.

The man reportedly began having difficulty breathing while visiting a viewpoint along the South Rim. His family drove him into the South Rim Village and requested assistance through 911. Within moments of EMS arriving on scene, the man stopped breathing and went into cardiac arrest.

NPS medical personnel were able to twice revive him before flying him to Flagstaff Medical Center in the park's helicopter. He again went into cardiac arrest as the helicopter landed at the hospital and was again successfully revived.

Unfortunately, his condition was such that his heart stopped several times while in the center's emergency department; despite the best efforts of all involved, he died while cardiologists were attempting to repair his heart.

[Brandon Torres; Branch Chief of Emergency Services]

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 Communications - To celebrate the connections between our national leaders and national parks, all 401 National Park Service sites will have free admission during Presidents Day weekend, February 15th through February 17th.

Denver Service Center - Since 2012, efforts have been underway to create foundation documents for all parks in the system. Sixty have been completed to date, with another 75 in the works and 95 more to begin this year.

NPS Alumni - Paula Penney Eckiss, 85, who ran the public inquiries office for public affairs in the Washington Office for many years, passed away on October 30, 2013.

Upcoming Training Calendar -Added to today's calendar are the following - three more WebEx training webinars, two weapons armorer classes, ParkMedic and EMT-B refreshers, an interagency regional wilderness stewardship training course, and two new FLETC offerings.

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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).

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