Volunteers Needed In The Keys If you live in the Keys, visit there or live in Miami-Dade County or elsewhere and want to help please read on and get involved. If the oil plume makes it to the Keys the resulting damage and die off of mangroves, estuarine species and dependent wildlife and aquatic species could be staggering. Your help is needed!
http://keysspill.com/
"We Need Volunteers!
Florida Keys Oil Spill Response
In an effort to be proactive in protecting our Florida Keys environment, this website has been created to help link all partner projects (US Navy, Marine Sanctuary) with volunteers, including Charter Captains,Divemasters, businesses, organizations and individuals.This website is constantly being updated with the latest news on meetings and events, visit this site often to stay informed.
Things that you might help with include
pre-assessments, boom deployment, beach clean ups, boat work, organizing efforts, local informational meetings, trainings, etc.
Please email "EVERYONE" you know and tell them to sign up at
www.keysspill.com, we need volunteers.
If the Gulf Spill enters the "Gulfstream Current Loop," oil could potentially be in the Keys area in as little as 5 days! We want to be prepared and you can help.
(Note: Professional Wildlife Rehabbers are being sought click the link below for a PDF file with more info.)
Professional Wildlife Rehabbers"
There is a lot of information on the website including a calendar. This important course of some important things you need to know in a petroleum cleanup appears there:
"May 11th (Tues) – OSHA Marine Oil Spill Class. This 4 hour course will give you the HazMat training needed to help with some aspects of Oil Spill Post Emergency Response and Clean Up. This course is designed mainly to address Safety and Healthy Awareness for Crude Oil exposures. It is OSHA certified HAZWOPER trianing as specified in 29 CFR1910.120(q)(11). The class is first-come-first-served, has 40 slots, and costs $100. To sign up, contact Cathy Torres at FKCC at (305) 809-3250.West"
There are many useful links and other information at the website,
http://keysspill.com/
Your help could make a difference, please get involved.
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