NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
INCIDENTS
Lava Beds NM
Child Rushed to Hospital After Fall in Park Cave
A five-year-old Klamath Falls boy fell approximately 20 feet while exploring a lava tube cave with his family on Friday, March 27th.
Park rangers were the first on the scene. Emergency crews were contacted and the child was flown via helicopter to Sky Lakes Medical Center in Klamath Falls and transferred to Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland, where he is now recovering.
Park staff are investigating the circumstances of the incident. Of the approximately 135,000 visitors that visit Lava Beds each year, about 25,000 visit Skull Cave. It is a popular cave due to its large entrance and ice floor. There are no records of a similar incident occurring in Skull Cave.
[Mike Reynolds, Superintendent]
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):
Northeast Region - During the week of March 15th, the National Parks of New York Harbor hosted the second annual NPS Academy spring break orientation in New York City. The academy is designed to raise awareness about the range of career opportunities in the NPS to college students from diverse backgrounds.
Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services Division - To highlight extremist groups in and around our parks and to provide some information on the Sovereign Citizen movement, the FBI has produced a good primer on the topic.
Kennesaw Mountain NBP - The park has been presented with Eastern National's 2014 Charles S. Marshall Unit Award for the teamwork and cooperation demonstrated during the 150th anniversary commemoration of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
Pacific West Region - Scott Burch has been selected as the new superintendent of National Park of American Samoa. He replaces Jim Bacon, who will be moving to the Denver Service Center.
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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