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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Friday, August 15, 2014 INCIDENTS Glacier NP Hiker Injured By Falling Boulder Park personnel responded to a medical emergency along the Continental Divide Trail in the Siyeh area on Sunday, August 10th. Two hikers, a father and son from Alabama, were climbing down from Mount Siyeh when a boulder was dislodged. The 21-year-old son avoided the direct impact of the boulder, estimated as weighing about 200 pounds, but received injuries from the glancing blow of the rock and his subsequent 200 foot tumble. He sustained lacerations to his head and chin, among other injuries. In an attempt to summon aid, the father waved his arms while yelling. He then fired one gunshot toward a solid surface to indicate that an emergency was occurring. Nearby hikers reported hearing the gunshot and yelling. One hiker aided the father and son as they began hiking out. Park personnel met them on the trail before the junction between Siyeh Pass Trail and Piegan Pass Trail. Two Bear Air hoisted them to West Glacier, where they were picked up by Three Rivers Ambulance and taken to North Valley Hospital in Whitefish. [Public Affairs Office] Sleeping Bear Dunes NL AED Used To Save Cardiac Arrest Victim On the afternoon of August 4th, a local dispatch office received a 911 call of a man down with CPR in progress on the face of the Dune Climb. Rangers Nate Mazurek, Paul Chalup, Jennifer Langel and Glen Lake Fire Department personnel responded with an ALS ambulance and two utility terrain vehicles (UTVs) to gain access to the top of the dune. The victim, a 63-year-old Wisconsin man, was located approximately 100 feet up the face of the first dune. Langel opened emergency access points for responding fire apparatus and Chalup served as communications relay, Visitor Use Assistant Diana Steele sprinted across the Dune Climb parking lot with an AED housed in the Dune Climb kiosk as Mazurek gathered EMS equipment and prepared to climb to the man's location, arriving their ten minutes after the first 911 call. CPR was being performed by a group of bystanders that included two EMTs, a physician, a nurse, a firefighter and an off-duty police officer. The AED was applied and one shock was administered. As CPR continued, an airway was established and the physician noted a radial pulse separate from the CPR efforts. Rescue breaths were continued and the man was loaded onto a backboard and transported to the awaiting ambulance at the base of the Dune Climb via UTV. He was taken to Munson Medical Center in Traverse City, where he underwent surgery and is expected to have a full recovery. Quick application of the AED, solid teamwork, strong interagency cooperation and training led to a successful outcome for this visitor. [Phil Akers, Chief Ranger] Richmond NBP Rangers Assist With Homicide Investigation Protection rangers discovered an abandoned, burned minivan cab just outside of the park boundary on Watt House Road in the Gaines Mil unit around 7 a.m. on Saturday, August 9th. A body was discovered inside. The rangers assisted Hanover County deputies with the ensuing investigation, which revealed that the body was that of 26-year-old J.W., a taxi cab driver and Navy veteran from Hopewell, Virginia. J.W. had received a radio dispatch to pick up a rider in the Mechanicsville area during the late evening hours of Friday, August 8th. The Hanover County Sheriff's Department and the Hanover Fire Marshal's Office are conducting the ongoing investigation. Local media attention is high. [Tim Mauch, 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): Grand Teton NP - Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of Lady Bird and President Lyndon Baines Johnson, served as keynote speaker during a recent celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, signed into law by her father in 1964. Today's Almanac - A slow-moving storm system will bring heavy rain and flash flooding to portions of the Cascades, northern Rockies and High Plains. Hawaii Volcanoes NP - While Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park is now almost entirely open, park staff have their work cut out for them in the wake of of Hurricane Iselle. Hundreds of trees were downed, signs and buildings were damaged, and power was knocked out. Bryce Canyon NP - Sixteen middle school Southern Paiute students participated in the second Kwiyamuntsi Youth Camp, held on traditional homelands within Cedar Breaks National Monument and the Dixie National Forest. President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace NHS - President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site recently inducted five high school students into its inaugural “Voices of Hope” Youth Leadership Academy Institute. Denver Service Center - After 32 years of federal service, Joanne Cody has announced that she will retire on September 3rd. Joanne is a landscape architect and the landscape architecture, universal design and accessibility technical specialist for Denver Service Center. Servicewide Training Calendar - Added to this week's calendar is a workshop on engineering for historic timber framing sponsored by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training in Louisiana. 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). --- ### --- |