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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Friday, September 5, 2014 INCIDENTS Lake Clark NP&P Four Hikers Rescued From Copper Mountain On the evening of Sunday, August 31st, four hikers were rescued from Copper Mountain in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. Three of the hikers were off-duty Lake Clark employees. The National Park Service's Alaska Region Communication Center received a distress call from a park radio around 7:30 p.m., reporting that a seasonal maintenance employee in the group had sustained a life-threatening injury in a fall. Members of the party provided first aid, but they were unable to move him due to unstable terrain. National Park Service personnel and Alaska state troopers in Port Alsworth worked with the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center to rescue the hikers. The Air National Guard responded with an HC-130 aircraft and an HH-60 helicopter with pararescue jumpers. During the hoisting operation, another seasonal maintenance employee for Lake Clark, who was on furlough from the Grand Canyon, sustained a significant head injury as a result of falling rock debris. All four hikers were brought aboard the helicopter and flown to Anchorage. The two injured men are currently receiving treatment at Providence Alaska Medical Center. INCLUDEPICTURE "https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif" \* MERGEFORMATINET [Megan Richotte, Chief of Interpretation] 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): Rocky Mountain NP - A year-long celebration of Rocky Mountain National Park's 100th anniversary began this week with kickoff ceremonies on both the east and west side of the park. Presentations during these events highlighted the past, present and future of Rocky Mountain National Park. Today's Almanac - Abundant monsoonal moisture will bring locally heavy rainfall to parts of the Desert Southwest. As Hurricane Norbert moves northward, additional moisture will funnel into the area and help fuel the flash flood potential over this region. Alaska Region - The National Park Service is proposing a permanent federal prohibition on three historically illegal predator hunting practices in Alaska's national preserves. Office of Communications - The Service has awarded more than $1.7 million in grants from the Land and Water Conservation Fund to help preserve land at four of America's Civil War battlefields threatened by urban development. Andrew Johnson NHS - The park's biennial “School of the Civil War Soldier,” an overnight educational camp, was recently held in the backyard of the Andrew Johnson Homestead. Fort Pulaski NM - Over this past summer, two classes from the drafting department at Savannah Technical College collaborated with park staff to produce several electronic drawings of park historic structures. Fire Island NS - Patricia Harris, much beloved volunteer at the park's William Floyd Estate from 1984 until 2013, passed away on Friday, August 1st, at the age of 93. Servicewide Training Calendar - The following have been added to this week's calendar - a Parkmedic course in California, a class on building tribal and NPS relationships in Omaha, and separate Livestream training sessions on retirement planning for CSRS and FERS employees. 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). --- ### --- |