NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
INCIDENTS
Missouri NRR
Search For Missing Boy Enters Third Day
A multi-agency search and rescue operation was begun on the evening of April 5th when a six-year-old boy went missing at Yankton's Riverside Park. The boy was reported to be fishing with family members when he fell off the dock into the Missouri River.
Yankton County Search and Rescue and the Yankton Police Department responded to the park at approximately 7:30 p.m. and began a shoreline-based ground search. The Yankton County Search and Rescue dive team arrived shortly thereafter and searched in the water in the area of the boat dock. Search efforts continued until midnight when they were called off due to poor weather and cold temperatures.
On April 6th, the Yankton Police Department, Nebraska Game and Parks, Yankton County Emergency Management, Cedar County Emergency Management, and South Dakota Game Fish and Parks joined in the search, employing towed sonar to locate underwater anomalies. A helicopter from Avera-McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls performed limited aerial searching due to poor weather, with a dog team from Brookings, South Dakota, assisting. The Yankton County Sheriff's Office continues to coordinate search efforts, and Yankton Police Department is handling the investigation.
Searching will continue in coming days, with the focus moving towards recovery plans, but are being hampered by cold and rainy conditions, swift currents, and deep water. The NPS will continue to be engaged in helping locate this young boy through continued assistance in this interagency effort.
[James Dahlstrom, Chief Ranger, Niobrara NSR]
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):
Intermountain Region - Organ Pipe Cactus NM and the Border Patrol's Ajo Station are collaborating on increased horseback patrols that reduce motorized vehicle use in the park's wilderness. They also are working together on a series of "virtual" trails for horseback riding through the monument.
Northeast Region - Artifacts associated with the surrender at Appomattox are included in a special exhibit at Appomattox Court House National Historical Park that is part of the 150th anniversary commemoration.
Cedar Creek and Belle Grove NHP - The park hosted a training workshop last week on comprehensive and conscientious interpretation of slavery. Participants explored the complexities of historic narratives and gained new interpretive techniques.
Northeast Region - Michael Creasey has been selected to oversee NPS sites in Boston -- Boston National Historical Park, Boston African American National Historic Site and Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area.
Social Science Program - Margaret Littlejohn, retired National Park Service social science specialist, passed away on Tuesday, March 17th.
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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