NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
INCIDENTS
Chickamauga and Chattanooga NMP
Ranger Forestalls Attempted Suicide On Lookout Mountain
Ranger Justin Young began a search for a missing 29-year-old woman on Wednesday, May 27th, after receiving a 911 call reporting her missing on Lookout Mountain.
The woman's family had contacted police after their bipolar and suicidal daughter, who had been acting irrationally, vanished from their house by way of a taxi. A business on Lookout Mountain had informed the Lookout Mountain Police Department that the woman was seeking directions to Sunset Rock, a favorite overlook.
Young located the woman two steps from the cliff face at about 6:30 p.m. After blocking her route to the edge, he began talking to the distraught woman about her plans to harm herself. He was later assisted by local police. The woman believed that she was the anti-Christ and that her soul had been taken away by God.
The woman was taken back to the main road, where a family member took custody of her.
[Todd Roeder, Chief Ranger]
Badlands NP
Ranger Assists With Intervention In Attempted Suicide
On the afternoon of May 25th, the Pennington County emergency communications center in Rapid City asked Ranger Tyson Nehring to respond to a suicide attempt in progress at the Forever Resorts Hotel near Interior, South Dakota. A 25-year-old woman had consumed alcohol mixed with prescription medications and had cut her wrists with a razor blade.
Nehring provided an initial size-up to responding Jackson County officers and EMS personnel, then assisted personnel from the Interior VFD until an ambulance arrived 45 minutes after the initial contact.
The woman was transported to Rapid City Regional Hospital by ambulance. Nehring assisted the sheriff's department with the initial field investigation.
[Casey J. Osback, 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):
Statue of Liberty NM - A partnership with Groundswell Mural Project has resulted in a new temporary exhibit at Ellis Island entitled "Our American Narrative Continues" that showcases past and present immigrant experiences.
US Park Police - On May 13th, the United States Park Police and the Fraternal Order of Police United States Park Police Labor Committee hosted a reception to honor police officers who have died in the line of duty and their families.
San Francisco Maritime NHP - San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park's 1891 NHL scow schooner Alma won the Big Schooner Division trophy in the 2015 Master Mariners Regatta.
Midwest Region - Larry Johnson, a 32-year veteran of the National Park Service, has been selected as the new superintendent of Ozark National Scenic Riverways. He begins his new assignment in mid-June.
US Park Police - On Wednesday, May 6th, Linda Pierini was presented with a certificate recognizing her 30 years of government service, 21 of them with the U.S. Park Police.
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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