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Show Park accidents increase A man who leaped into a thermal pool to rescue his dog and another visitor who attempted to parachute from a 2,000-foot 2,000-foot canyon wall were among :I5 persons who died of accidental causes while visiting National Park Service areas of the Rocky Mountain Region last year. That is an increase of three from 1980. Accidental falls (twelve), drowning (ten) and motor vehicle mishaps mine) took the highest tolls during the year. Nationally. 182 persons died of accidental causes while visiting national parks in 1981. This is 28 less than in the previous year. Yellowstone, with seven fatalities, recorded the Rocky Mountain Region's most tragic toll. Five were killed in automobile accidents and one victim drowned. One man succumbed to burns he suffered after entering a thermal pool to rescue a dog. Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in L'tah and Glacier National Park in Montana each reported six accidental deaths for the year. Five of the fatalities in Grand Teton were the results of falls while the other was due to a motor vehicle mishap. In Glen Canyon, five deaths were attributed to drownings and the other to another mishap on the water when a ski jet collided with a boat. Three of the deaths in (lacier involved drownings. Two climbers fell to their deaths, and an automobile accident took the life of one park visitor. Rocky Mountain National Park, which recorded nearly :) million visitors during 1981, reported two deaths which resulted from injuries from falls. AnotbiT visitor died from the effects of hypothermia he suffered during another climbing effort. Colorado National Monument, in western Colorado. had three deaths during the vear. |