NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Thursday, January 15, 2009

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INCIDENTS

Golden Gate NRA

Visitor Succumbs To Hypothermia Following Fall

Presidio fire and EMS personnel responded to a report of a woman in distress on Rodeo Beach in the Marin Headlands just after 7 a.m. on Sunday, January 4th. A park maintenance worker who was emptying trash receptacles found a partially-clothed woman lying in the sand, beckoning for help. Paramedics began providing care when she went to cardiac arrest, and she was taken by ambulance to San Francisco General Hospital. Protection rangers were summoned to the scene because circumstances suggested that a crime may have been committed. The woman subsequently died, probably as a result of severe hypothermia due to temperatures in the 30s. An investigation was conducted by USPP detectives and the medical examiner's office. The victim was identified as J.E., 71, a retired nurse who lived alone in El Cerrito. She'd been seen leaving her rented home there on Saturday afternoon. Investigation revealed that she likely fell from the top of a nearby hill that evening, was injured, then suffered from exposure during the night. [Kim Coast, Operations Supervisor]

OTHER NEWS

The following stories are among those in today's edition of InsideNPS:

Office of Public Affairs - Director Mary A. Bomar will retire on Tuesday, January 20th, capping a 25-year federal career that included becoming the first naturalized citizen to lead the NPS.

HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Announcements&id=7274" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Announcements&id=7274

Office of International Affairs - The United States is nominating President George Washington's Mount Vernon estate and gardens in Virginia and the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in Hawaii for inclusion on the World Heritage List.

HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=viewnpsnewsarticle&type=Announcements&id=7270" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=viewnpsnewsarticle&type=Announcements&id=7270

Intermountain Region - Catherine Light is the new superintendent of Chamizal National Memorial in Texas. She will assume her new position in February.

HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=PeopleNews&id=2217" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=PeopleNews&id=2217

Manhattan Sites - Shirley McKinney has been named superintendent for Manhattan Sites, which includes Federal Hall, Castle Clinton, Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace, General Grant, Hamilton Grange, and St. Paul's Church.

HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=PeopleNews&id=2219" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=PeopleNews&id=2219

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HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=viewnpsnewsarticle&type=Announcements&id=3363" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=viewnpsnewsarticle&type=Announcements&id=3363

Prepared by the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, with the support of the Office of the Chief Information Officer and Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@nps.gov).

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