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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Friday, May 9, 2014 INCIDENTS Grand Canyon NP Nine Injured In Three-Vehicle Accident An accident involving a car, a 20-passenger tour bus and a mini-van occurred early yesterday afternoon at Pipe Creek Overlook on East Rim Drive. Nine people were injured. Park dispatch received the call just before 2 p.m. Responding emergency personnel treated and transported eight visitors by ambulance; a ninth was flown to Flagstaff Medical Center by a Guardian Air helicopter. All three of the vehicles were damaged, as were two parked cars. East Rim Drive was closed while emergency responders cared for the injured and cleared the roadway of vehicles. [Kirby-Lynn Shedlowski, Public Affairs Officer] 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): Golden Gate NRA - Golden Gate National Recreation Area has developed a series of new webpages to bring to light the relatively little-known stories of the involvement of California and the West in the Civil War. Office of Communications - The Office of Communications Digital Strategy Division has developed two new online training courses for NPS web authors. They're available via DOI Learn. United States Park Police - On Tuesday, April 29th, the San Francisco Field Office held a promotion and awards ceremony and also celebrated its 40th anniversary. Office of Communications - Director Jarvis has added a new entry to his blog concerning the winner of the Share the Experience photo contest. A link is included. Northeast Region - Meghan Kish has been selected as the next superintendent of New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park and Roger Williams National Memorial. Servicewide Training Calendar - Added to this week's listing are two new online DOI Learn training courses on web authoring, one a basic level course and the other an intermediate level offering. 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). --- ### --- |