NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Thursday, April 2, 2015
INCIDENTS
Rocky Mountain NP
Climber Suffers Multiple Injuries In Fall
The park received a 911 call reporting a falling accident above The Loch late on the morning of Tuesday, March 31st.
It was later determined that 28-year-old J.H. of Boulder, Colorado, took an 80 to 100 foot roped fall near or on a climbing route called Deep Freeze. She was with a climbing partner at the time.
J.H. was located in steep scree roughly 500 feet above The Loch on Thatchtop Mountain. The Loch is three miles from the Glacier Gorge Trailhead. Rangers reached her at 2:30 p.m.; they found that she'd sustained numerous injuries but was conscious.
Rangers lowered J.H. down a steep scree slope to The Loch, where an air ambulance was able to land on the frozen lake. At a little after 7 p.m., Flight for Life transported her to St. Anthony's Hospital.
Fortunately, weather conditions and the location were conducive for assistance from a helicopter. Otherwise, it would have been an even lengthier rescue operation. A total of eighteen rescue personnel had reached the Glacier Gorge Trailhead by approximately 8 p.m., including the park SAR team, Larimer County Search and Rescue and Rocky Mountain Rescue.
[Kyle Patterson, Public Information Officer]
Lake Mead NRA
Teen Dies In Jump From Cliff Into Lake Mohave
A body has been recovered in Placer Cove on Lake Mohave where a teen disappeared on April 1st after jumping from a cliff.
Rangers began searching the area around 12:30 p.m. after witnesses said a teen jumped from a cliff to help a swimmer below. The swimmer made it to safety, but witnesses said the teen was seen going underwater.
Rangers located the body underwater using sonar and called in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Search and Rescue Dive Team for support. The dive team recovered the body.
The Clark County Medical Examiner will confirm the victim's identity and determine the cause of death. The incident is under investigation.
[Public Affairs Office]
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 - Following months of collaborative work by employees from across the organization, the Find Your Park public awareness campaign gets its first moment in the sun today with a media event in New York City.
Fort McHenry NM&HS - Although the bicentennial of the War of 1812 is over, the “work in the trenches” for the Fort McHenry staff continues. In March, a series of three one-act plays were staged highlighting the fort's role during World War I.
Midwest Region - On Friday, March 27th, twelve 11th grade honors history students from a Nebraska high school came to Midwest Regional Office to participate in the United Nations Seventh Annual Global Student Video Conference.
Southeast Region - Steve Black has been selected as the next superintendent of Little River Canyon National Preserve and Russell Cave National Monument in Alabama.
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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