[StBernard] ST. BERNARD PRESIDENT CRAIG TAFFARO TESTIFIED JUNE 2 ON CAPITOL HILL ABOUT THE BP OIL SPILL - LINK TO TESTIMONY INCLUDED

Westley Annis Westley at da-parish.com
Fri Jun 3 08:31:03 EDT 2011


so how do you become a "certified incident commander"? I thought he was a
psychologist?

Is it something where you just sorta click your heels and that's it or did
he take a correspondence course or was it just cuz he was parish prez?





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ST. BERNARD PARISH PRESIDENT CRAIG TAFFARO TESTIFIED THURSDAY, JUNE
2 ON
CAPITOL HILL ABOUT THE BP OIL SPILL



As a Certified Incident Commander to the Unified Hopedale Branch,
President
Taffaro supervised the operations in 10 divisions with over 2,500
first
responders in over 650 vessels that deployed over 600,000 linear
feet of
boom to protect over 2,000 square miles of sensitive marsh land.
President
Taffaro utilized the largest and most effectively employed network
of more
than 1,300 commercial fishermen to form a well-trained fleet of
certified
oil spill responders. Additionally, he was a strong voice among
regional
leaders addressing the BP oil spill in efforts to protect and to
restore
critical fisheries and marshlands and get appropriate funding and
support
from BP and the government.





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