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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Wednesday, March 12, 2014 INCIDENTS New River Gorge NR Rangers Intervene In Out-Of-Park Assault After attending a recent search and rescue training session, two New River Gorge rangers stopped for lunch at a local restaurant in Beckley, West Virginia. While eating, they heard a woman screaming for help and went to investigate. The rangers saw a man running from the rear of the restaurant, coming from where they had heard the screams for help. As he ran through the restaurant, the rangers saw other people chasing him and yelling that he had just attacked a woman in the bathroom. The rangers stepped into the path of the man, took control of the situation, and detained him. They also checked on the victim's welfare. Beckley PD and EMS were both contacted. Beckley PD officers quickly arrived and took control of the scene while EMS personnel treated the woman. The man was found to be a ward of the state and mentally ill. His counselor was with him in the restaurant at the time, but had lost track of the man. The rangers completed lunch without further interruptions. [Jeff West, Chief Ranger] OTHER NEWS The following stories are among those in today's webpage editions of InsideNPS (available to NPS employees only) and the Morning Report (available to all readers): Selma to Montgomery NHT - On Monday, March 10th, Director Jarvis joined other dignitaries at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to unveil a plaque designating it as a National Historic Landmark. The bridge was the site of a bloody confrontation during a peaceful voting rights march in 1965. Great Smoky Mountains NP - Secretary Jewell and Senator Lamar Alexander joined park officials last week in announcing the construction of a Collections Preservation Center in the park that will store artifacts and records from five eastern Tennessee national parks. National Information Services Center - Staff at NISC will be working with a Microsoft technician over this coming weekend to adjust and configure the SharePoint server, so a number of sites will generally be unavailable during that period. Pacific West Region - Fred York, the regional anthropologist for Pacific West Region, retired on January 31st after 22 years with the National Park Service. To see the full text of these stories, readers should go to one or the other of the following sites: NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index Non-NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/" http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/ 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). --- ### --- |