INCIDENTS

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Cape Hatteras National Seashore (NC)
Two Killed, One Injured in Jeep Accident on Beach

Dare County emergency communications received a 911 call around 3:30 a.m.on Sunday, May 23rd, reporting a rollover accident at Coquina Beach. Rangers Jon Anglin, Paul Stevens and Chuck Huston responded along with Dare County EMS, Dare County Sheriff's Office deputies, NC Highway Patrol officers and Nags Head Fire and Rescue personnel.  A witness statement and the associated investigation revealed that J.G., 19, of Glen Allen, Virginia had driven a cloth-topped Jeep at a high rate of speed — later estimated at 50 to 55 mph — into an area closed to vehicles. The Jeep hit an 18-inch berm, went airborne for about 70 feet, hit the ground, and rolled end over end four times before coming to rest 200 feet from the berm. N.G., 22, of Richmond, Virginia, the rear seat passenger, was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.  S.B., 23, also of Richmond, Virginia was extricated from the vehicle and died during a Dare County Medflight transport to a Virginia trauma center.  J.G. was also thrown from the Jeep; he was flown by Dare County Medflight to a Virginia trauma center, where it is expected he will be released in the next several days.  Alcohol was a contributing factor and charges are pending.
[Submitted by Jon Anglin, Acting Chief Ranger]

Fort Necessity National Battlefield (PA)
Severe Thunderstorm Batters Park

On Friday, May 21st, an intense thunderstorm passed over Friendship Hill, Fort Necessity and the surrounding area, saturating already wet soils. At 6:40 a.m., a microburst hit the parks, snapping and uprooting trees. Although none of the park's structures were damaged, more than two dozen trees fell across roads at Fort Necessity and another four blocked roads at Friendship Hill. Parts of both parks were without power throughout the day, including the half of the headquarters building that supplied power to the computer server and copy machine. Although all visitor access roads were reopened by late in the day, work continued throughout the weekend to fully clear roadways and begin clearing trails. Power was not completely restored until sometime Saturday.[Submitted by Ken Mabery, Superintendent]

FIRE MANAGEMENT

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National Interagency Fire Center
NIFC Situation Report Highlights — Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Preparedness Level 1

NIFC reported 129 new fires on Tuesday, three of which became large fires.

Very high to extreme fire indices were reported in Arizona, Florida, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas and Utah.

Warnings and Watches

FIRE WEATHER WATCHES have been issued today for strong winds and low relative humidity for parts of northeastern, eastern and east-central New Mexico.

National Resource Commitments

Day	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed
Date	5/20	5/21	5/22	5/23	5/24	5/25	5/26
Crews	21	22	40	51	42	50	57
Engines	25	24	62	70	68	60	85
Helicopters	10	6	7	16	16	14	19
Air Tankers	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Overhead	39	57	129	175	352	410	428

National Team Commitments

Newly listed fires (on this report) appear below in boldface. Fires are sorted by type of team; teams are listed in alphabetical order within each type by the IC's last name.

State	Type Team	Team IC	Fire/Location	Acres 5/25	Acres 5/26	Percent Contain	Est Full Contain
NM	T2	Bateman	Peppin Fire Lincoln NF	9,500	23,000	0	6/5
AZ	T2	Kvale	KP Fire Apache-Sitgreaves NF	9,379	10,511	20	UNK
NM	T2	Winchester	Lookout Fire Cibola NF	4,750	5,100	80	5/27

Further Information

This report is meant to present just highlights of the current fire situation. Two other NIFC sites provide much greater detail:

Full NIFC Situation Report (PDF file) — http://www.nifc.gov/news/sitreprt.pdf

National Fire News — http://www.nifc.gov/fireinfo/nfn.html

Information on the NPS Fire Management Program Center (FMPC) and on park fires can be found at:

FMPC — http://www.nps.gov/fire

Park fires — http://www.nps.gov/fire/news

Fire and Aviation Management
NPS Fire Management and Eastern National Announce New Website

Eastern National and the National Park Service Fire Management Program are proud to announce the launch of a new Fire Education website, www.eFire.org.

This website represents an educational partnership between the National Park Service Fire Management Program and Eastern National, a cooperating association partnered with the National Park Service. The main goal of the site is to create a centralized destination for fire education materials and resources. The website provides links where families, educators, fire professionals and community groups can learn more about fire education. The site also provides links to real-time fire news and other fire management organizations throughout the U.S.

Internet users can access the website directly at http://www.eFire.org or they can find hyperlinks from Eastern National's website, http://www.eParks.com or the National Park Service Fire Management website, http://www.nps.gov/fire.

The retail function for eFire.org will be provided by Eastern National's commerce website, eParks.com, which offers a wide-variety of America's national parks educational materials including books, videos, posters, games, collectables, and more.

eFire.org provides links to three separate fire education bookstores on eParks.com:

• Fire Education, Structural
• Fire Education, Wildland
• Fire Leadership.

"We are happy to be working with the National Park Service Fire Management Program and look forward to making fire-related educational products available to the public," said Chesley Moroz, President of Eastern National.

Eastern National is a non-profit organization that provides quality educational products and services to America's national parks and other public trusts. Eastern National operates educational outlets in over 130 national parks and public lands in 30 states. Since 1947, Eastern National has donated over $70.7 million to the National Park Service. For more information, visit www.easternnational.org and www.eparks.com.
[Submitted by Roberta D'Amico, roberta_d'amico@nps.gov, 208-387-5239] More Information...

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Prepared by the Division of Law Enforcement and Emergency Services, WASO, with the cooperation and support of Delaware Water Gap NRA.