Disaster Clean-Up
I know it's still fresh and efforts probably won't move until things are settled. However is there any place I can go to get organized with helping the clean up efforts from the plane crash yesterday? I've been a part of the community for a good while and would like to help out, but have never looked into any of this. Closest things I could find with Google was maybe the Salvation Army.
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I’d say your hearts in the right place, but it crashed into an area that won’t really need your help.
If you’re interested in helping the community generally, I’m sure that food banks and homeless services need all forms of additional assistance.
I think you’re right. Given the hazardous materials at the crash site, I’m guessing that’ll be for the pros. Hunger and food banks are still the most pressing issues facing our community
Go give blood.
Got a drive at my job-site on Thursday!
Please let the professionals finish investigating the crash first. They haven't even found all of the bodies of the missing people yet. It hasn't even been 24 hours for them to figure out what, if anything, is needed from the community.
If you want to help the community, donate food to food banks. Far more people are affected by SNAP benefits being cut off than they are from this crash.
This will be handled by outside contractors. I used to do environmental clean-ups and the company I worked for did a plane crash at the Lexington airport many years ago.
Initial response will be to minimize unburned fuel from moving off-site. Putting oil absorbing booms in creeks and ditches. And using vac-truck to collect any impacted water or standing fuel.
Once the investigation has concluded, the cleanup will occur. Any damage to buildings, materials, etc… from the crash or the fire will be demolished and hauled off and disposed of as required by the material. Any plane parts found during the cleanup will be collected and cataloged by the NTSB or FAA.
Then any contaminated soil will be excavated and hauled off to a landfill and new dirt brought in to backfill. Depending on the site, this may require sampling to confirm they reached clean soil. This part may take several months to accomplish.
This is jet fuel, it’s more similar to kerosene and isn’t as hazardous as other chemicals seen from train derailments and other disasters we’ve seen.
UPS needs to take care of all of this.
They will. They have gazillions of dollars of insurance for situations just like this.
When I was doing contracting, we worked for UPS occasionally for truck wrecks and spills and they always went well above and beyond what was required.
A lot of people don’t realize Jet-A is mostly kerosene and when needed, jets can drop fuel and will vaporize before it hits the ground as long as it is high enough
Yeah I was shocked by that. We removed a jet fuel tank from a hospital that had previously kept a helicopter there. I assumed it was something crazy to deal with, nope just kerosene with some additives to increase the octane.
Your heart is in the right place, but unfortunately this is probably a clean-up best left to the pros as there'll need to be a Hazmat team to coordinate and execute clean-up efforts. It's in your own best interest to find other ways to get involved, if there are any.
I can say, the Salvation Army sometimes doesn't even help but goes to sites do to publicity. They're a cult & I'd find more reputable charities if they're available to you.
Local food banks & churches might be offering some sort of service,
I'd also see if there's some sort of financial aid you can give to, if you have the money - idk if we have one, but I imagine a lot of folks are gonna wish they could find other, safer work after this - and we really should have a local fund to support each other in general for when stuff like this goes down.
“Everyone wants to help save the world. Nobody wants to help mom with the dishes.”
YUP. Do the labor closest to you! Help where you are!!!
Not disaster clean up but the local Red Cross helps with all disasters, even small house fires. They have many volunteer opportunities and you can sign up for free training to be one of the people that helps families after. I use to work for them and we have some spectacular folks at the Louisville Red Cross.
Thank you, I'll take a look into that. I'd like to get more involved working around my work schedule.
The only people that will be allowed to physically help with the clean up are investigators and their team. They’ve told anyone who finds any debris to not touch it and report to authorities. Plane crashes are taken as serious as a murder crime scene. Not just anyone can be there
The sentiment is truly beautiful. Take care of all your neighbors.
That said, if you live under this airport, you socialized enough losses from UPS already. Let this company do right, or be forced to, before you put yourself in harms way.
Give blood. Ask anyone you know at UPS if there is a food or clothing drive for any of the victim’s families. When they reopen grade lane go to stooges and buy a beer and burger. The clean up itself will have to be handled by professionals.
Kentucky Baptist Convention has some efforts going right now to feed the first responders. They started last night and it was just announced they would continue doing so today.
Perfect, thats very helpful info. I'll look into them
Oof
I'm sorry this happened to y'all. I hope you recover swiftly
Yea you’re not going to be allowed to go clean up
With the likelihood of it needing hazmat, it wouldn’t be a good idea to go to the scene area. NTSB will be there for a while as they try to find the recorder box and try to gain some sense from this accident.