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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Thursday, March 19, 2015 INCIDENTS Grand Canyon NP Park Firefighters Assist On Structural Fire In Tusayan On Sunday, March 15th, the Tusayan Fire Department asked the park for mutual aid assistance for a working structural fire at the Canyon Plaza Resort. The town of Tusayan is a gateway community located near the park's south entrance. The initial scene size-up by a two-person crew from Tusayan FD reported visible flames and smoke from the second floor of a three-story hotel building. The heating/air conditioning unit for the involved room had overheated and caught fire. Firefighters conducted a primary search of the building and found only partial evacuation of guests, heavy smoke on the second floor, and sprinkler activation in the fire room. With the help of hotel maintenance staff, Tusayan firefighters were able to knock down the flames coming from the heating/air conditioning unit with an exterior attack. NPS units arrived on scene and conducted an interior search and evacuation of the building. NPS units also conducted overhaul and checked for any extension of the fire. One hotel maintenance worker suffered minor burns and smoke inhalation attempting to fight the fire with a portable fire extinguisher. [David Van Inwagen, Fire 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): Sequoia and Kings Canyon NPs - Last week, more than 30 firefighters from ten National Park Service units across the country participated in a live fire training exercise in the park as part of their biannual certification. George Wright Society - The George Wright Society will be live-streaming the first two plenary sessions of the 2015 George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites. San Francisco Maritime NHP - San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park is conducting a pioneering education program in which students explore the park through thumbs-on-the-joystick, experiential STEM learning. Joshua Tree NP - On Wednesday, March 11th, the education branch of Joshua Tree National Park hosted a student summit on climate change at the Black Rock Canyon Visitor Center. Golden Gate NRA - Frank Dean, the park's general superintendent, retired on March 1st after almost 40 years of service. He is now president and CEO of the Yosemite Conservancy, the primary nonprofit partner of Yosemite National Park. National Capital Region - Tanya Gossett has joined National Capital Parks - East as chief of resource management. She had served as acting chief of resource management since October 2014. 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). --- ### --- |