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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Thursday, November 6, 2014 INCIDENTS Gateway NRA Efforts To Revive Man On Wrecked Sailboat Prove Fruitless On the afternoon of October 30th, rangers from the park's Sandy Hook Unit received a call from park dispatcher Kim Eubanks regarding an unconscious man who'd washed up onto the shore at Echo Beach. Rangers Dustin Parker, Romale "Orlando" Lovelace, Adam Hubert, Ryan McLeod and Acting Fire Chief/Ranger Frank DeLuca responded. Lovelace, who arrived within three minutes of Eubanks' call and was the first on scene, advised that a sailboat approximately 25 feet long had crashed onto the shoreline. The NPS ambulance arrived on scene within six minutes. Mutual aid was also requested from Sea Bright Fire and EMS and from Monmouth and Ocean County paramedics. With the assistance of the bystander who reported the incident, Parker and Lovelace removed the man from the sailboat and onto the beach. They immediately began CPR on the victim and utilized an AED, but were unsuccessful in their attempts. Rangers worked with the Monmouth County medical examiner, US Coast Guard, and the New Jersey State Police Marine, Major Crime, and Crime Scene Units on the investigation. Preliminary results have shown that the death was caused by a medically-related issue prior to the vessel crashing onto the shoreline. [Ryan McLeod, Acting LE Operations Chief] 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): Martin Luther King, Jr. NHS - History, hard work and hands-on preservation converged in the park in October when six young people in a Hands-On Preservation Experience (HOPE) crew restored the exteriors of two shotgun-style homes owned by the park across from Dr. King's birth home. Today's Almanac - A storm will bring gusty winds, rain, and high elevation snow to the Great Lakes region and Northeast. Red flag warnings are up for southwestern California. Hopewell Culture NHP - On October 9th, a commemoration ceremony was held at Seip Mound Earthworks to mark the transfer of 122 acres from Ohio History Connection to Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. Northeast Region - Weir Farm NHS and Delaware Water Gap NRA recently teamed up to promote "Arts Afire," a Call to Action item. Together, the parks offered an immersive youth arts program at the Peters Valley School of Craft. Glen Canyon NRA - Glen Canyon National Recreation Area hosted a DOI-sponsored H337/I-300/I-400 Command and General Staff Functions training course during the last week of October. Theodore Roosevelt NP - Wendy Ross has been selected as the acting superintendent at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. She assumed her new duties on November 1st. Pacific West Region - Steve Gibbons assumed the duties of acting superintendent for Lassen Volcanic National Park on November 1st. He succeeds outgoing superintendent Darlene Koontz, who retired on October 31st. US Park Police - A canine team from the San Francisco Field Office came in third at the 24th annual Las Vegas Police K-9 Trials hosted by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department last month. 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). --- ### --- |