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Finally we got our chance to remove ourselves from in front of computers, green festivals, and green buildings to volunteer for the recent Cosco-Busan Oil Spill. Granted this last training session will allow us to take part as official Disaster Service Worker Volunteers but at this point the San Francisco city officials have or will soon re-open the local beaches.

Some Greenerati members, along with 300 some odd volunteers sat through a well organized session that included educational, safety and informational elements. Although the training did offer lots of interesting info, it certainly could have been condensed into a session about one-half as long. City officials + training equals a long, repetitive session.

Various leaders from the city public works department, parks and wildlife, and various other official types conducted the training. They discussed, among other things, the various elements of the IFO-380 that spilled into San Francisco Bay about 10 days ago. They made a point of declaring that it is not a question of is the oil toxic but rather how toxic is it. How little did we know about the Liquid Density, Vapor Pressure and Flash Point of this oil. The crowd enjoyed the show and tell fashion show of how to get into and get out of the Ghostbusters-looking Tyvek suit, gloves and booties used by volunteers to clean up the oil. We hope that the oil doesn’t cause any more damage but if it does then we’re just itching to jump into our white hazmat suits and do some clean-up.

 

2 Comments on Oil Spill Training Day

NOV
19
2007
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it will be a great day when there are NO MORE oil spills to deal with because we have finally moved on to environmentally friendlier methods!!!!
1:22pm • #1
Keith, I was involved in a diesel fuel pipeline break in VA several years ago.  That fuel devastated the wildlife in the affected area.  We hauled almost 100 beaver out of the area, and numerous waterfowl.  The rescue process was amazing.  However, that was before HAZMAT suits were the norm and we were all exposed to many many hours of diesel while rescuing the animals and bathing them.  One of the most rewarding aspects after we were done was seeing a play pen full of rescued baby beavers!  Unfortunately there was no way we could reunite them with their mothers so they went to a rehab center in the south of Virginia till they were old enough to be released.
9:26pm • #2


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