Florida’s emergency management director, David Halstead, is preparing to wind down the state’s efforts to the BP oil spill citing that no additional oil has spilled from the well for about a week and a half and current winds favor Florida. As of Monday, July 26, the state’s Emergency Operations Center had been activated for 88 days, which is longer than the activation in response to 2004’s series of hurricanes.
Read more from WTSP, a news outlet in Tampa.
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