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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Tuesday, June 3, 2014 INCIDENTS Yellowstone NP Pilot Seriously Injured In Plane Crash In Park A 54-year old man was injured when his single-engine airplane crashed in the park on Monday morning. Shortly before 8:30 a.m., several callers reported that a small plane had crashed just north of the Gardiner Cemetery and east of Yellowstone Trail inside Yellowstone National Park. The accident site is south of the publicly-owned Gardiner Airport, which is outside the park boundary. The seriously injured pilot was removed from the wreckage and transported by ambulance to Gardiner Airport, then transferred to a Summit Air Ambulance helicopter and taken to Bozeman Deaconess Hospital for treatment. The plane is an Aero Commander agricultural aircraft, which is designed to carry a single pilot and no passengers. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have been notified of the accident, which is under investigation. The Park County Sheriff's Office and Gardiner Ambulance joined Yellowstone National Park law enforcement rangers, firefighters, and EMS personnel in a park ambulance in responding to the incident. [Public Affairs] Biscayne NP Three Injured In Boat Collision Two vessels collided near Elliott Key around 10 p.m. on the evening of Sunday, May 25th. Three people were rushed from the accident scene by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue and transported to local hospitals. One person died and the other two were seriously injured. Biscayne National Park rangers responded to the accident along with personnel from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Miami-Dade Police and Fire Rescue, the United States Coast Guard, Coral Gables Police and City of Miami Fire Rescue. [Matt Johnson, Public Information 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): National Interagency Fire Center - The National Interagency Fire Center has updated its significant wildland fire potential forecast for the months of June through September. Activity this month will center on California, Alaska and parts of the Southwest. Outdoor Recreation Information Center - Staff from the interagency Outdoor Recreation Information Center in Seattle had another successful outreach event this year during Armed Forces Day at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Aztec Ruins NM - Local high school students from two National Park Foundation-sponsored programs - Park Stewards and Adopt a Class - recently completed a productive year of service learning at Aztec Ruins. Office of Communications - The Department of the Interior has honored four government and tribal employees with the annual Secretary of the Interior Historic Preservation Awards, recognizing their outstanding contributions to the preservation of historic places and artifacts. Lake Mead NRA - A five-year-old girl who nearly drowned in Lake Mead last month recently returned to the park to thank the rangers who saved her life. She will also be helping them organize a drowning awareness program for her school. Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services - Pam McMillan and John Evans have been detailed to positions in victim assistance and security and intelligence following the departures of Lisa Kreeger-Norman and Paul Kemppainen. 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). --- ### --- |