- Subject: NPS Morning Report - Friday, May 16, 1997
- Date: Fri, 16 May 1997
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
To: All National Park Service Areas and Offices
From: Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office
Day/Date: Friday, May 16, 1997
Broadcast: By 1000 ET
INCIDENTS
97-103 - G. Washington Birthplace (Virginia) - Follow-up on Employee Injury
Ranger Andrew Packett, who was seriously injured in an automobile accident on
March 17th, was released from hospital last Friday and is now at home.
Andrew has several months of therapy ahead of him, as well as additional
surgery on one of his knees. He will be in a back brace for perhaps a month
and will need to use a wheelchair until he can rebuild his strength, but has
great determination and expects to fully recover and return to work by fall.
He greatly appreciates and has been encouraged by the numerous expressions of
support that he's received from all over the National Park Service.
[John J. Frye, GEWA]
97-199 - Great Smoky Mountains NP (Tennessee/North Carolina) - Rescue
On the afternoon of May 14th, park dispatch received a report of an emergency
at Bull Cave. Four young men from Knoxville had entered the cave in the
early afternoon and at least three were stuck inside. After interviewing the
one member of the party who'd been able to get out, rangers called upon fire
and rescue squads from Alcoa and Knoxville for assistance. Rangers lowered
themselves 150 feet into the cave and comforted the three men, who were in
various stages of hypothermia. After stabilizing them and rigging them for
evacuation, they were hooked into a hauling system set up by the rescue squad
and brought to the surface. One of the three was hospitalized for
hypothermia. Television news coverage of the rescue was extensive. All four
individuals were cited for entering the cave without appropriate permits.
Bull Cave, which is 226 meters deep, is the deepest cave in Tennessee.
District ranger Jack Piepenbring managed the incident. [Jason Houck, CR,
GRSM, 5/15]
FIRE ACTIVITY
NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL - Level II
LARGE FIRE/INCIDENT SUMMARY
Wed Thu % Est
State Unit Fire/Incident IMT 5/14 5/15 Con Con
UT State Cogswell - 2,380 3,000 60 5/16
Cedar City District Kolob Creek - 145 115 75 5/19
NV Winnemucca District Tolbert - 1,200 4,620 90 5/15
Toiyabe NF Wheeler - 250 600 15 5/16
Elko District * Boulder Canyon - - 300 0 NEC
AL USFS NF * All Day - - 225 100 CND
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
NUMBER OF NEW FIRES (FIVE DAY TREND)
NPS BIA BLM FWS States USFS Total
Sunday, 5/11 1 2 0 0 32 29 64
Monday, 5/12 0 9 11 1 179 37 237
Tuesday, 5/13 1 5 1 0 171 13 191
Wednesday, 5/14 0 7 3 1 31 7 49
Thursday, 5/15 0 7 9 0 13 21 50
TOTAL COMMITTED RESOURCES (FIVE DAY TREND)
Crews Engines Helicopters Airtankers Overhead
Sunday, 5/11 17 27 5 1 53
Monday, 5/12 15 43 8 1 14
Tuesday, 5/13 30 69 8 2 31
Wednesday, 5/14 32 49 13 2 11
Thursday, 5/15 34 62 7 1 17
CURRENT SITUATION
Large fire activity continued yesterday in the Great Basin. There was only
minor resource mobilization through NICC.
NATIONAL OUTLOOK
No fire weather warnings or watches posted.
[NICC Incident Management Situation Reports, 5/16]
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
No submissions.
OPERATIONAL NOTES
Television Broadcast - Yosemite NP will be the subject of NBC's "Today" show
on Monday. Secretary Babbitt will be interviewed and will discuss flood
recovery efforts, transportation issues at Yosemite and other national parks,
and the prescribed fire management program. Segments of the show will
feature stories on the park's search and rescue operation, wildlife, rock
climbing, an artist's view of the park, fly fishing on the Merced River, and
the park's historic lodges. [Scott Gediman, PIO, YOSE]
MEMORANDA
No submissions.
EXCHANGE
No submissions.
WEB DIRECTORY
Every other Friday, the Morning Report will carry a listing of Worldwide Web
sites of use to NPS employees in the course of their work. Please send along
entries to the editor. Thanks to Bill Blake, Steve Hastings and Hank
Brightman for providing this week's additions. More submissions are pending
and will appear on the next pass. All new entries are marked with asterisks.
National Park Service Sites
Congressional Affairs office www.nps.gov/legal
Training and Development office www.nps.gov/training
NPS Web page development info www.nps.gov/helpdesk (user name: NPS,
password: Mather)
Current VIP opportunities www.nps.gov/volunteer
Press releases, park news, more www.nps.gov/pub_aff/pressrm.htm
Q&A with volunteer NPS historians www.nps.gov/crweb1/history/askhist.htm
Geologists-in-Parks program www.aqd.nps.gov/natnet/grd/geojob/geojob.htm
Harpers Ferry wayside exhibits www.nps.gov/waysite
Department of Interior Sites
DOI jobs listings www.usgs.gov/doi/avads/index.html
DOI IG reports www.gpo.ucop.edu/search/ig.html
DOI payroll, Denver www.dasc.doi.gov
Other Agency Sites
Comptroller General decisions www.gpo.ucop.edu/search/gaocd.html
GAO reports www.gpo.ucop.edu/search/gao.html
OPM jobs listings www.usajobs.opm.gov
USDA graduate school www.grad.usda.gov
Thrift Savings Plan www.tsp.gov
New legislation (NECTEA) re:
funding for park roads www.fhwa.dot.gov
GSA per diem rates www.policyworks.gov/org/main/mt/
homepage/mtt/perdiem/travel.sht
OPM locality pay rates www.opm.gov/pay/index.htm
CFR and Federal Register info* www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr
FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection* www.ftc.gov
IG networks* www.sbaonline.sba.gov/ignet
Other Park-Related Sites
Student Conservation Association www.sca-inc.org
Links to Nps worldwide http://149.170.210.2/~keith/links.htm
Enforcement Information Sites
Environmental contract fraud info* www.echotech.com
www.afce.org
www.fraud.org
FLETC legal updates* www.sbaonline.sba.gov/ignet/library/legalupd/legalupd.html
Investigation hotline* www.netrail.net/~hotline/investigations
Info on legal issues* www.Lawcheck.com/main.html
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