NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Thursday, March 26, 2015

INCIDENTS

Hawaii Volcanoes NP

Kitchen Fire Temporarily Closes Restaurants In Volcano House

Both restaurants in the Volcano House have been closed since Tuesday while officials investigate the cause of a kitchen fire that sent a hotel employee to the hospital that morning.

Both The Rim restaurant and Uncle George's Lounge were closed so that National Park Service inspectors could determine the cause of the small blaze. Both restaurants should reopen today. The Volcano House hotel remained open after the fire.

Park rangers, Hawai‘i County medics and firefighters responded quickly to the fire alarm and calls to park dispatch around 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday. A 42-year-old hotel employee suffered burns to his upper arms and was transported by county medics to the hospital.

[Jessica Ferracane, Public Affairs Specialist]

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):

Civil War To Civil Rights Commemoration - On April 9th, the National Park Service will join communities across the country in a nationwide bell-ringing event to mark the end of the Civil War. Guidance is provided on how you can participate.

Yosemite NP - Yosemite National Park kicked off its celebration of the park's 125th anniversary with a ceremony at Yosemite Falls this past Tuesday. The theme of the event was “Youth of Today: Park Stewards of Tomorrow."

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers NM - Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument and its partner organizations jointly hosted a 151st birthday commemoration for Colonel Charles Young on March 12th.

Washington Office - The next time that you pass by the NPS offices on I Street in Washington, DC, you can get a new stamp cancellation in your national parks passport for the Washington Support Office (WASO).

Juan Bautista de Anza NHT - Volunteers from across California and Arizona gathered in the heart of downtown Los Angeles earlier this year to explore modern techniques for interpreting Southwestern history.

William Howard Taft NHS - Ray Henderson, chief of operations at William Howard Taft National Historic Site, will retire on April 3rd after 36 years of service to the National Park Service.

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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