NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
INCIDENTS
Independence NHP
Man Dies Of Probable Overdose In Park Visitor Center
On the evening of January 16th, rangers responded to a report of an unresponsive man in the restroom of the Independence Visitor Center. They found that he was not breathing and had no pulse.
CPR was begun and an AED was utilized in an effort to revive him, but the AED indicated that a shock was not in order. Philadelphia Fire Department EMS personnel arrived; they consulted with their medical control, who pronounced the man dead.
Rangers noted track marks on the man's arm and found a used hypodermic needle among his belongs. A small blue baggie was also found in his mouth. The National Park Service and the Philadelphia Police Department are investigating.
[Patrick Suddath, Chief Ranger]
OTHER NEWS
The following stories are among those in today's webpage editions of InsideNPS (available to NPS employees only) and the Morning Report (available to all readers):
Office of Communications - Director Jarvis will hold a webchat today at 3:30 p.m. Eastern. He will talk about the year ahead and about preparations for the upcoming NPS centennial.
Fire and Aviation Management - Parks interested in hosting a fire protection intern this summer to assist with their structural fire prevention programs are encouraged to submit applications to the Branch of Structural Fire. They are due by February 17th.
Big Thicket NP - During the week of January 5th, ten students from Saint Michael's College in Burlington, Vermont, spent a portion of their winter break volunteering at Big Thicket National Preserve.
To see the full text of these stories, readers should go to one or the other of the following sites:
NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index
Non-NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/" http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/
The Morning Report is produced by the Office of Communications with the support of the Office of the Associate Director for Information Resources. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov).
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