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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Wednesday, October 1, 2014 INCIDENTS Independence NHP Visitor Saved Through Effective Use Of AED, CPR Seasonal protection ranger Nicolas Gannon saw a visitor at the corner of Chestnut and 6th Street who was exhibiting the signs of a person under the influence of alcohol last Friday morning. Upon making contact with the visitor, Gannon immediately determined that he was actually in medical distress. He called dispatch, asked for assistance, and was soon joined by rangers Eric "Max" Drawert, Rosileen Feriloli, Derik Pinsonneault and Graeme Morris. As Drawert, who is also an EMT, was medically assessing the man, he went into cardiac arrest. Drawert and Gannon administered CPR and utilized a defibrillator until paramedics arrived on scene. The visitor was then taken to a local hospital for further evaluation and treatment. [Trouper Snow, Chief of Operations] 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): Jefferson NEM - The NPS officially broke ground on a project to renovate the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial grounds under the Gateway Arch in a ceremony held on Thursday, September 25th. The ceremony marked the start of the NPS phase of the larger CityArchRiver 2015 project. Resource Information Services Division - The new NPS Library Resource Information Service (NPS LIBRIS) application has been released, It brings new technology and efficiency to NPS library information management and to the discovery of library and related resources pertaining to the NPS. Climate Change Response Program - The Climate Change Response Program is now accepting proposals for rigorous climate change internship projects to be conducted in the summer of 2015. Proposals must be received by October 31st. Northeast Region - Shenandoah National Park has joined in a nationwide study to sample mercury levels in national parks in an effort to identify threats to natural resources. Local citizen scientists are collecting much of the needed data. Intermountain Region - Dr. Todd Chaudhry has been selected as the new Colorado Plateau CESU research coordinator. He started his new position on September 22nd and is duty stationed in Flagstaff, Arizona. 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). --- ### --- |