- Subject: NPS Morning Report - Monday, August 26, 1996
- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
To: All National Park Service Areas and Offices
From: Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office
Day/Date: Monday, August 26, 1996
Broadcast: By 1000 ET (DELAYED)
INCIDENTS
96-487 - Gates of the Arctic (Alaska) - Fatal Bear Mauling
R.B., a visitor from Washington, D.C., was fatally injured when he was
mauled by a grizzly bear in the park on August 23rd. R.B. was hiking with
one of two rafting companions when they surprised a sow grizzly with a cub.
The bear immediately attacked the hikers, killing R.B. R.B.'s companion
returned to camp and picked up the third member of the group; they returned
to the scene, covered R.B. with a tarp, and attempted to drag him back to the
camp, which was over a mile away. They soon became exhausted, returned to
the camp, and flagged down the pilot of a passing aircraft, who reported the
incident. Rangers from Gates of the Arctic and Northwest Areas and state
troopers were ferried to the site by a Fish and Wildlife Service Supercub
with floats. They rescued the survivors and retrieved R.B.'s body. The
attack by the bear was immediate and without warning, giving R.B. no
opportunity to prepare a defense. R.B.'s companion may have escaped injury
because he kept on walking, ignoring the bear. [Craig Johnson, Ranger, GAAR]
96-488 - Great Smokies (Tennessee/North Carolina) - Insect Sting Fatality
A 51-year-old Maryville, Tennessee, man was fishing with his nephew near
Tremont on Sunday when he was stung more than 100 times by yellow jackets.
When ranger Mike Smithyman arrived on scene, he found several people
employing CPR in an attempt to revive the man. Advanced life support
personnel arrived within a few minutes. Resuscitation efforts lasted an hour
and included CPR, defibrillation, and administration of epinephrine. The
victim nonetheless succumbed. He had no previous history of allergic
reactions. [Jason Houck, CR, GRSM]
96-489 - Hawaii Volcanoes (Hawaii) - Apparent Heat-Related Fatality
On the morning of August 23rd, the park received a call from the wife of
B.B., 27, of San Leandro, California, advising that he had not
returned on his scheduled flight from Hawaii. Investigation revealed that
B.B. had registered for a solo hike into the backcountry from Hilina Pali
to the coast, and that he was to exit on August 21st. Ranger Jeff Kracht
checked the Hilina Pali trail. He found a cloth cross on the trail at the
base of the pali (escarpment) and saw what appeared to be a pack further down
the trail. Kracht hiked to the location and found B.B.'s body.
Indications are that he died from heat-related problems. Hot, dry and windy
conditions prevailed in the Hilina Pali area throughout last week. [Jim
Martin, Superintendent, HAVO]
96-490 - Arches (Utah) - Lightning Fatality
Q.F., a 22-year-old student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was struck
by lightning on the Delicate Arch trail during the passage of a particularly
active thunderstorm on the evening of Saturday, August 24th. Q.F. was hiking
with his brother and two companions when he was struck. A physician, a
third-year medical student, a paramedic and a critical care unit nurse were
all in close proximity at the time of the incident and began CPR immediately.
A cell phone call was made to the county sheriff's office; they in turn
notified the park. A park team, which included a paramedic and an EMT and
members of a local ambulance company, hiked in and provided advanced life
support, restoring Q.F.'s pulse. He was flown to a hospital in Grand Junction,
where he eventually succumbed from complicating internal trauma and burns.
Two lightning-caused fires also occurred during the storm's passage. The
first was extinguished by visitors in the campground who employed large
squirt guns and kitchen tools to suppress the fire. The second caused minor
burns to a visitor who attempted to put it out. [Marc Yeston, CANY]
[Additional reports pending...]
FIRE ACTIVITY
NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL - Level V
LARGE FIRE/INCIDENT SUMMARY
% Est
State Unit Fire/Incident IMT 8/23 8/26 Con Con
OR Umatilla NF Bull Cx T2 7,340 13,385 40 NEC
Tower T2 5,250 10,500 40 NEC
Malheur NF Wildcat T1 10,655 10,655 90 NEC
Wallowa-Whitman NF Salt Cx T1 58,780 63,215 75 8/31
Willamette NF South Zone Cx T2 3,029 3,311 80 8/30
* Moolack Cx T2 - 11,000 0 9/5
Umpqua NF Spring T1 3,160 10,000 5 NEC
North Umpqua T2 244 585 60 NEC
Deschutes NF * Skeleton/Evans T2 - 16,300 20 NEC
* Park Meadows T1 - 670 0 NEC
Colville Agency * Timberline Cx T2 - 10,000 10 NEC
CA Yosemite NP Ackerson Cx T1 19,865 26,625 21 NEC
Stanislaus NF Rogge T2 23,200 23,200 100 CND
Angeles NF * Reservoir T2 - NR NR NEC
San Bernadino NF * Rouse -- - 100 50 NEC
Hoppa Agency * Rock T2 - 219 25 8/26
Mendocino NF Fork T1 77,490 82,980 100 CND
Shasta-Trinity NF * Pocket -- - 100 100 CND
MT Nez Perce NF Swet/Warrior T2 29,200 29,200 NR NEC
State * Telephone Butte T2 - 50 20 NEC
Crow Agency * Dry Creek -- - 100 90 8/24
ID Nez Perce NF * Sunday Poet T2 - 95 NR NEC
* Bearwallow -- - 142 0 NEC
* Old Man Lake -- - 200 0 NEC
UT Cedar City District Cunningham -- 11,770 14,854 75 8/26
WY Shoshone NF Dano T2 1,300 2,000 60 8/26
Rock Springs District * Delaney Ridge -- - 300 99 8/25
NV Elko District Shoemake -- 20,000 13,800 98 9/1
AK Statewide 14 fires -- 428,120 413,573 -- NSS
Heading Notes
Unit -- Agency = BIA area; NF = national forest; RU = CA state resource
or ranger unit; RD = state ranger district; District = BLM
district; NWR = USFWS wildlife refuge
Fire -- * = newly reported fire (on this report); Cx = complex; LSS =
limited suppression strategy; CSS = containment suppression
strategy
IMT -- T1 = Type 1; T2 = Type II; ST = State Team
% Con -- Percent of fire contained
Est Con -- Estimated containment date; NEC = no estimated date of
containment; CND = fully contained; NR = no report; LPS = limited
protection status
NPS FIRE NARRATIVES
Ackerson Complex, Yosemite - The Poop/Naut and Ackerson fires burned together
yesterday. Extreme fire behavior continued as the fire moved through the
Cherry Creek drainage toward Hetch Hetchy. Burnout operations conducted
yesterday were successful. Two engines were burned over in the Ackerson
fire, but no injuries to firefighters were reported. A helicopter assigned
to the fire suffered a rotor strike and had to make an emergency landing.
The pilot was not injured.
NUMBER OF NEW FIRES (FOUR DAY TREND)
NPS BIA BLM FWS States USFS Total
Wednesday, 8/21 7 15 10 0 41 15 88
Thursday, 8/22 2 12 11 1 27 56 109
Friday, 8/23 - - - - - - -
Saturday, 8/24 2 7 10 0 61 91 171
Sunday, 8/25 4 17 4 0 37 53 115
TOTAL COMMITTED RESOURCES (FOUR DAY TREND)
Crews Engines Helicopters Airtankers Overhead
Wednesday, 8/21 504 557 165 39 2,699
Thursday, 8/22 760 803 171 21 2,854
Friday, 8/23 - - - - -
Saturday, 8/24 538 588 146 29 2,968
Sunday, 8/25 603 654 137 40 3,442
CURRENT SITUATION
Fire activity increased yesterday in the northern Rockies, southern
California and the Northwest. Extreme fire behavior was observed on some
large fires. The Army unit assigned to the Fork fire in northern California
has been reassigned o the Park Meadows fire in Oregon.
NATIONAL OUTLOOK
NICC has posted a FIRE WEATHER WATCH for dry lightning in northeast
California, northern and central Nevada, southern Idaho, southwest Wyoming,
and the Cascades in Washington.
An upper level disturbance will move across Oregon and Washington through
tonight. This will help push the hot surface thermal trough eastward across
the two states and bring a chance of dry thunderstorms to central Oregon and
western Idaho. There will be isolated dry thunderstorms in the remainder of
Idaho and northeast Nevada. Thunderstorms in western Oregon and western
Washington will have some rain with them, and temperatures there will be
turning cooler. Otherwise, there will be hot dry weather from eastern
Washington and eastern Oregon to Montana and Wyoming. Breezy west winds are
expected across the Cascades and locally breezy conditions in northern
California. Scattered wet thunderstorms are forecast in Colorado, Utah, New
Mexico and Arizona.
[NICC Incident Management Situation Report, 8/24-26]
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
No submissions.
OPERATIONAL NOTES
NPS-53, Special Park Uses Guideline - The long-awaited draft of release
number two of NPS-53 is now available for comment. This is a total rewrite
of the guideline and will replace the first released, published in 1986. It
contains new sections and commentary on filming, IBPs, use and occupancy
agreements, special events, political uses of parks, cost recovery, and many
more subjects of every day concern to parks. The draft is available
electronically by sending a cc:Mail message to Dennis Burnett in WASO Ranger
Activities with the following as the subject, EXACTLY as written: NPS53. You
do not have to add any test or message. Three files will be automatically
returned to you. The first file, entitled README.1st, will explain what to
do with the next two, which are self-extracting zipped files. Follow the
instructions on this file for satisfactory results. The file tells how to
comment, where to send the comments, and the time frame for their submission.
Please note that the file, even zipped, is 580,000 bytes, so you may want to
make your call after hours if you have a relatively slow speed modem. Please
share these documents with as many people as possible, particularly everyone
involved with special use permits, right-of-way permits, IBPs, etc. Comments
are solicited from as wide a range of respondents as possible - from the
superintendent to staff members who type the documents themselves. [Dick
Young, RAD/WASO @ COLO]
MEMORANDA
No submissions.
EXCHANGE
No submissions.
MEETINGS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS CALENDAR
Two calendars alternate in the Morning Report on Mondays - this one, which
contains meetings, conferences and events, and a second, which contains
workshops and training courses. If you know of a conference, meeting,
workshop or training session with Servicewide interest and implications,
please send the information along. Entries are listed no earlier than FOUR
months before the event, EXCEPT in instances in which registration dates
close much earlier. Asterisks indicate new entries; brackets at end of entry
indicate source of information. Brevity is appreciated.
9/5-7 -- "Museums for the Millennium," Washington, DC. Hosted by the
Smithsonian Institution. Contact: Center for Museum Studies,
Smithsonian Institution, MCR 427, Washington, DC 20560; 202-357-
3101 (phone); 202-357-3346 (fax); nedcc@world.std.com (e-mail);
http://www.si.edu/organiza/offices/musstud/newmil.htm (Web).
[Diane Vogt O'Connor, CSD/WASO]
9/8-12 -- Pacific Marketing and Revenue Sources Management School, San
Diego, CA. Cost: $435. Contact: Joan Chaplick, PGBSSO, at 415-
744-3972 or the National Recreation and Park Association at 800-
796-6772. [Joan Chaplick, PGBSSO]
9/8-13 -- "Sustaining Ecosystems and People in Temperate and Boreal
Forests: An International Conference on Integrating Conservation
of Biological Diversity with Social and Economic Goals,"
Victoria, British Columbia. Contact: Victoria Ltd., PO Box
40046, Victoria, BC, Canada, V8W 3N3; 604-382-0332 (phone);
http://www.octonet.com/connvic/ecomain.html (Web). [Kathy Jope,
CCSSO]
9/11-13 -- "School for Scanning: Working in a Digital World," Washington,
DC. Sponsored by the NPS and Smithsonian Institution. Contact:
G. Pfeifle, NEDCC, 100 Brickstone Square, Andover, MA; 508-471-
1010 (phone); 508-475-6021 (fax); nedcc@world.stm.com (e-mail).
[Diane Vogt O'Connor, CSD/WASO]
9/11-14 -- "The Place of History: The History of Place," Annual Meeting,
American Association for State and Local History, Nashville, TN.
Contact: 615-255-2971 (phone) or 615-255-2979 (fax). [Diane Vogt
O'Connor, CSD/WASO]
9/18-21 -- "Strategies for Battlefield Preservation and Partnerships," Third
National Battlefield Preservation Conference, Chattanooga, TN.
Co-sponsored by the American Battlefield Protection Program and
Chickamauga and Chattanooga NMP. Contact: Hampton Tucker via
cc:Mail or at 202-343-3580. [Tanya Gossett, ABPP/WASO]
9/22-26 -- "GIS and Water Resources," 32nd Annual Conference and Symposium,
American Water Resources Association, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Contact: Cheryl Hallam, USGS, 703-648-5755. [Sheila Lee,
T&GD/WASO]
9/29-10/2 -- "Caring for Home Place: Protected Areas and Landscape Ecology,"
Regina, Saskatchewan. Integration of sustainable development,
landscape and ecosystem management, and protected areas.
Contact: Canadian Council on Ecological Areas, http:
//zeus.cas.uregina.ca/~cprc/ccea (Web). [Kathy Jope, CCSSO]
10/1-- CALL FOR PAPERS: "Making Protection Work: Parks and Reserves in a
Crowded, Changing World," Ninth Conference on Research and
Resource Management in Parks and on Public Lands, Albuquerque,
NM. Conference to be held, March 17-21, 1997; abstracts due by
October 1st. Abstracts are welcome on any topic related to
research, resource management, interpretation and public
education in parks and protected areas, from any field in
cultural and natural resources. Contact: George Wright Society,
PO Box 65, Hancock, MI 49930-0065, or at http://www.
portup.com/~gws/gws97.html, or via Internet at
gws@mail.portup.com. [David Harmon, GWS]
10/1-3 -- "Remember the Ladies: Women and the Preservation of Virginia's
Past," Stratford Hall and Popes Creek Plantations, VA. Sponsored
by George Washington Birthplace NM and Stratford Hall. The
conference will focus on women's groups in the forefront of the
historic preservation movement. Fee: $100. Contact: Martha R.
Walker, 301-934-6027. [John Frye, GEWA]
10/1-6* -- "Living with Wildlife," Annual Conference, The Wildlife Society,
Cincinnati, OH. Contact: The Wildlife Society, 301-897-9770
(phone), tws@wildlife.org (Internet). [Kathy Jope, CCSSO]
10/2-6 -- 1996 Annual Convention, The Association for the Study of Afro-
American Life and History, Charleston, SC. Co-hosted by Avery
Research Center. Contact: Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney or Ms. Cherisse
Jones, 803-727-2009 (phone), 803-727-2017 (fax). [Mike Allen,
CHPI]
10/10-13* -- "Biodiversity and Ecology of the West Gulf Coast Plain
Landscape," Big Thicket Science Conference, Beaumont, TX.
Contact: Rick Strahan, CRM, BITH, via cc:Mail or at 409-839-2690
x 224, or Susan Brown, via cc:Mail or at 409-839-2690 x 223.
[Sheila Lee, T&GD/WASO]
10-11/13* -- Appalachian Long-Distance Hikers Association Annual Gathering,
Carlisle, PA. Contact: Al Souchard, 31 Albany Stone Cr., Nashua,
NH 03063. [Sheila Lee, T&GD/WASO]
10/16-20 -- National Preservation Conference, Chicago, IL. Contact: Michelle
Becker-Jones, 202-673-4039. [Sheila Lee, T&GD/WASO]
10/18-21* -- American Hiking Society's 20th Anniversary, Harpers Ferry, WV.
Contact: American Hiking Society, 301-565-6704. [Sheila Lee,
T&GD/WASO]
10/19-21 -- Annual Meeting, American Society of Landscape Architects, Los
Angeles, CA. Contact: ASLA, 202-686-2752. [Sheila Lee,
T&GD/WASO]
10/26-31* -- 103rd International Association for Chiefs of Police Conference,
Phoenix, AZ. Deadline for advance registration is August 16th.
Contact: 1-800-843-4227, 307-836-6767. [Dwayne Collier, SOAR]
10/27-11/1* -- 1996 National Safety Council Congress and Exposition/1996 DOI
Safety and Health Mini-Seminar/51st Annual Federal Safety and
Health Conference, Orlando, FL. Contact: Marcy Rogers, DOI, 303-
238-7180. [Steve Hastings, NERI]
11/9-- "Mamie D. Eisenhower: Her Impact and Influence on Her Time,"
Dwight D. Eisenhower Seminar, Gettysburg, PA. Sponsored by
Eisenhower NHS and Gettysburg College. Contact: John Joyce,
EISE, 717-338-9114 (phone) or 717-338-0821 (fax). [John Joyce,
EISE]
11/21-23* -- "Presenting Ourselves: Interpretation of Community Issues and
Local Culture," American Association of Museums, Cincinnati, OH.
Contact: 202-289-9114 (phone); 202-289-6578 (fax). [Diane Vogt
O'Connor, CSD/WASO]
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