The city of San Francisco offered 150 specially trained municipal workers to help clean up beaches and save birds - but essentially got shrugged off by the Coast Guard, according to the city's acting mayor and the president of the Board of Supervisors.Supervisor Bevan Dufty said that he and board President Aaron Peskin talked with Coast Guard Rear Adm. Craig Bone on Friday, offering the services of city workers trained to deal with spills and animals harmed by oil.
Dufty, who is acting mayor while Mayor Gavin Newsom is out of town, said he was given "commitments that our help would be used, but now, here it is 48 hours later and they still haven't used all our people."
The city workers are firefighters and workers in the health department "who have training to deal with oil-contaminated creatures and spills, but all they've taken from us is a handful," Dufty said, noting that only about six have been called out.
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