NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, January 8, 2010

INCIDENTS

Grand Canyon NP

Body Found Below Canyon Rim

A man's body was discovered below the canyon rim at the Abyss on Hermit Road on Wednesday. On Tuesday afternoon, rangers found a light-colored passenger vehicle parked at the Abyss with no owner immediately apparent. The following morning, rangers went out to check on the vehicle and found that it was still parked at the Abyss, triggering an investigation which included using a spotting scope to search below the rim. Unable to thoroughly view the area with the spotting scope, rangers requested a helicopter to assist with a below-rim investigation. At about 10:45 a.m., the helicopter crew reported spotting the body of a lone man about 300 feet below the rim. Search and rescue personnel rappelled down to the location and extricated the body, which was transferred to the Coconino County medical examiner. A location is underway. [Shannan Marcak, Public Affairs Officer]

OTHER NEWS

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

Lake Mead NRA - Shorter winters and longer hotter summers are just some of the challenges ahead for Southwest parks if current climate trends continue. This was the news delivered to the 60 attendees at a Climate Friendly Parks workshop hosted by Lake Mead.

US Park Police - Captain Pat Gavin recently retired from the United States Park Police. He has taken a position as the chief of law enforcement for the Colorado State Parks. Photo.

Heritage Preservation Assistance - Katie Callahan Durcan joined the staff of the Washington Office in December as the assistant coordinator for national heritage areas. Photo.

Servicewide Training Calendar - A listing of upcoming training courses offered by the NPS and its partners across the nation. Added to this week's listing are the following - an EMT refresher at Delaware Water Gap, a course on drug task force interview and interrogation techniques at Blue Ridge, a law enforcement refresher at Jean Lafitte, and a Servicewide basic technical rescue training course at Canyonlands.

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/

NPS serious incident submission standards can be found at the following web site: HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/waso/custompages.cfm?prg=45&id=8728&lv=2&pgid=3504" http://inside.nps.gov/waso/custompages.cfm?prg=45&id=8728&lv=2&pgid=3504

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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. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@nps.gov).

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