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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Monday, August 25, 2014 INCIDENTS Grand Teton NP Body Of Missing Concession Employee Found Search teams from the park and Teton County Search and Rescue found the body of A.“S.”S., 20, of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, below Cache Couloir in Cache Gulch on Friday, August 22nd. He'd been the subject of a three-day-long search. A.S., a seasonal employee of Dornan's in Moose, Wyoming, was reported missing on the morning of Monday, August 18th. He had not been seen by coworkers since the previous afternoon. The preliminary investigation and search focused on areas in and around Moose. New information received on Thursday afternoon indicated that A.S. may have started a hike from Taggart Lake Trailhead around 9 a.m. on Monday. With a break in the inclement weather, an aerial search was conducted Thursday afternoon over Taggart and Delta lakes, but no sign of A.S. was found. Approximately 60 searchers gathered on Friday morning to explore areas where A.S. may have hiked in the Tetons. For a second day, the weather was extremely rainy with dense clouds covering the Teton peaks. Search teams found A.S.'s body that afternoon in Glacier Gulch about a third of a mile west of Delta Lake. He was declared dead at the scene by the searchers in consultation with the park's medical director. The circumstances of A.S.'s death are still under investigation. A.S. was wearing the metallic blue “Sochi” jacket described in missing person flyers distributed to the public, which helped in locating his body in the rocky terrain. [Jackie Skaggs, Public Affairs Officer] Crater Lake NP Man Arrested Following Violent Disturbance At Lodge Park dispatch was contacted by Crater Lake Lodge staff around 6 p.m. on July 10th and advised that a man was causing a disturbance at the service bar in the Great Hall, yelling at staff and visitors. Chief Ranger Curt Dimmick responded. While en route, he learned that the man had begun throwing things from the bar, including pitchers of water, a sales computer, and a credit card printer. He was subsequently advised that the man had also struck a visitor in the head with a crutch. As he entered the Great Hall, Dimmick saw that the man, later identified as D.T. of Medford, Oregon, was standing in front of the bar, leaning on a crutch and yelling obscenities at two employees. D.T. immediately turned to Dimmick, started advancing across the room with the crutch under his arm and began yelling “I am going to [expletive] kill you! You are going to die tonight!” Dimmick ordered D.T. to stop and get on the floor several times as he advanced, repeatedly yelling the same threats. When D.T. was only a few feet away and still refusing to stop, Dimmick used his taser to put him on the floor. Ranger John Neumann soon arrived and handcuffed him. There were about 50 visitors and Lodge staff present during the incident. Lodge staff had cleared most of the people from the Great Hall and secured the doors into the restaurant just beyond the bar to provide for the safety of guests while lodge and restaurant managers had kept D.T. occupied, waiting for rangers to arrive. The man who was struck in the head with the crutch was a minister who had attempted to talk to D.T. and calm him down. When the minister spoke to him, D.T. first tried to spit in his face and then swung his crutch at the minister's head. The minister ducked, but the crutch still hit the top of his head, causing a one inch laceration and contusion. The minister declined medical treatment. Rangers later located D.T.'s truck, which was parked
immediately in front of the lodge in the loading zone. Inside the truck
were a loaded .22 caliber rifle and an unloaded 7 mm. rifle with two
dozen rounds of ammunition. D.T. was charged with assault, resisting or impeding an officer, disorderly conduct and vandalism. D.T. did approximately $2500 in damage to lodge property. On July 28th, D.T. pled guilty to all charges. His sentencing is scheduled for September 2th. He has been in jail since the incident. The court has already ordered him to undergo a mental health evaluation. He told the judge he was having a bad day and had too much to drink after learning his ex-wife was trying to get sole custody of their son. Rangers had prior contact with D.T. Last November, he entered the lodge after it was closed by entering a side door that may have been left unlocked. He spent the night with his dog in one of the lodge's rooms, where he was found by concessioner maintenance staff the next morning. He was cited for trespass at the time. [Curt R. Dimmick, Chief Park Ranger] Cape Hatteras NS Virginia Man Drowns Near Rodanthe Pier Late on the morning of Friday, August 22nd, park staff and Chicamacomico Banks VFD and Dare County EMS personnel were dispatched to the beach north of the Rodanthe Pier, where an unconscious man had been pulled from the ocean. A.F., 32, of North Chesterfield, Virginia, had been found face down in the water. Family members and bystanders pulled him to shore and began CPR, which was continued by emergency responders. He was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. A.F. was last seen in two to three feet of water and then was suddenly seen face down, with no apparent cause. The medical examiner has ruled this a drowning with contributing medical-related causes. [Paul Stevens, 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): Director's Office - Today is Founder's Day, the anniversary of the day when the Service's founding legislation was signed in 1916. Director Jarvis has shared his thoughts on this day and on the upcoming centennial in an all-employee message. Learning and Development Division - The FY 2015 Albright-Wirth Grant application period opened on August 20th and will close on September 26th. Details are provided on how to submit an application. Fire and Aviation Management - One of the National Park Service's payment teams, led by Rose Pollard, was recently in Prineville, Oregon, processing millions of dollars in vendor payments for BIA, BLM, and NPS suppression incidents. Office of Communications - Todd Edgar has joined the Office of Communications Digital Strategy Division as NPS.gov manager. He is responsible for the strategy and policy relating to NPS public digital activities and guides the development of NPS.gov. 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). --- ### --- |