NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
NOTICE
Due to a power outage in Washington, the Morning Report and InsideNPS web pages were down most of the day last Friday. They are accordingly being reposted today, with three additions - an obituary for Art Allen, a Congressional update, and a search underway in Grand Canyon. Only those additions appear here.
INCIDENTS
Grand Canyon NP
Search Underway For Missing Man
Rangers are searching the Grandview-Hance area for a man who has been missing since at least last Friday. At approximately 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, September 5th, the park received word that a man reported missing to the Coconino County Sherriff's Office might be in the Grand Canyon. The sheriff's office received the initial report on the evening of September 4th - based on evidence found during their investigations, they determined that 43-year-old A.B. of North Carolina might have gone hiking in the park. Upon receiving the report, rangers began searching parking areas near major trailheads on the South Rim. A short time later, a blue Hyundai Accent that A.B. had rented was found in the Grandview Point parking lot. Aerial searches of the primary trails, routes and drainages in the area were begun, and three ground search teams were inserted into the area to begin searching the primary trails. A.B.'s specific itinerary is unfortunately not known. Park investigators are therefore seeking the assistance of anyone who has visited the Grand Canyon within the last week and might have seen him. Andrew A.B. is described as being 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing 200 pounds, with short medium-brown hair and grey-blue eyes. He may or may not be unshaven at this time. A.B.'s last known location was the Grand Canyon Inn in Valle, Arizona, where he was last seen by hotel staff on August 30th. Anyone who may have seen A.B. since that time is asked to call the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center at 928-638-7805. NOTE: The InsideNPS web page includes a photo of A.B. [Shannan Marcak, Public Affairs Officer]
OTHER NEWS
The following stories are among those in today's edition of InsideNPS:
Congressional and Legislative Affairs - This week's update on past and upcoming hearings and the status of legislation pertinent to the National Park Service.
NPS Alumni - Arthur C. Allen, 74, of Asheville, North Carolina, passed away on September 4th after a long illness. He worked for the NPS in many capacities from 1961 until his retirement in 1990. Photo.
To see these and other stories posted on InsideNPS (or NPS Digest, its public version), click on one or the other of the following links (please note that not all stories in the former appear in the latter): NPS employees: HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index ; non-NPS employees: HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/
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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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