Official oil cleanup ramps up, volunteers turned away

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Bob Juch
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Official oil cleanup ramps up, volunteers turned away

#1 Post by Bob Juch » Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:21 am

Emergency officials more than doubled the number of ships and cleanup workers attacking the massive oil spill throughout the Bay Area - while hundreds of frustrated citizens who tried to help were turned away from contaminated beaches and so-called training sessions.

But ordinary citizens seeking to join cleanup crews, however, were left frustrated.

Hundreds of would-be oil spill cleanup volunteers who wanted to do something were told on Saturday in San Francisco to go home and do nothing.

Spilled oil is just too dangerous for ordinary citizens to clean up, the experts said.

Full story: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... ETAB1P.DTL

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#2 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:23 am

There was a Simpsons episode where the celebrities got to clean the cute animals after an oil spill, while Marge, Lisa and Maggie had to clean rocks.

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