NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
INCIDENTS
Dayton Aviation NHP
Sites Closed While Bomb Squad Investigates Suspicious Item
A police bomb squad responded to the park when a maintenance employee reported a suspicious box on top of a concrete retaining wall in the Wright-Dunbar Plaza on May 7th. The employee said that he thought it could be a pop-bottle bomb or possibly a single-cook meth lab. The Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center and the Wright Cycle Company were closed to the public for over two hours while the Dayton PD bomb squad employed a robot to inspect the box and its contents. The item in the box that caused the concern was a plastic Coke bottle that contained an unidentified liquid and was sealed with a condom around the top. After the bomb squad safely emptied the contents of the Coke bottle, the Dayton Regional Hazmat Response Team conducted tests and found the contents to be non-hazardous. Review of surveillance video shows that the box was apparently placed there deliberately the night before by a yet-to-be-identified individual. [Keith Gad, Park Ranger]
New River Gorge NR
Four Cited For Theft From Park Campground
On the evening of Friday, May 10th, rangers responded to a 911 report of vandalism and theft at the Army Camp Campground near Prince, West Virginia. The activities were witnessed and then reported by campers. Rangers were within two miles of Army Camp when the call came in, working an assistance call regarding a vehicle that was broken down on a blind curve near the Prince Bridge. Although the thieves were gone by the time rangers cleared the call and arrived at Army Camp, quick coordinated action resulted in four suspects being spotted and stopped. The picnic table was recovered and taken back to Army Camp. The four were charged with theft and driver's license violations. Drug paraphernalia was found in the vehicle. All four had criminal histories, and one was wanted on a non-extraditable warrant out of North Carolina. The vehicle was inventoried and towed. [Jeffrey West, Chief Ranger]
OTHER NEWS
The following stories are among those in today's edition of InsideNPS. To see the full text, including images, NPS employees should go to the InsideNPS home page ( HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index). Non-NPS employees can see most of them on the NPS Digest page ( HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/):
Northeast Region - Within days of Hurricane Sandy slamming NPS areas in the New York-New Jersey area last fall, Museum Emergency Response Team first responders from National Capital Region were on the scene providing assistance.
Cultural Resources - A new partnership agreement to capture all nationally significant park cultural landscapes within FMSS has been signed by the Park Facility Management Division and the Park Cultural Landscapes Program.
Park Facility Management Division - On Earth Day last year, the NPS released a Green Parks Plan. On April 30th, Director Jarvis delivered the Green Parks 2012 Performance Brief summarizing the Service's progress to date.
Denver Service Center - Jim Pennington, a project specialist at Denver Service Center, will retire on May 31st after 41 years of service. A retirement luncheon will be held at month's end.
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