Turtle Rescue at Lightning Speed

Every night, a Sunrise FL customer walked his dogs along a canal.  Turtles trapped in a storm drain got their attention.  First the customer contacted the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, which in turn, contacted the South Florida Water Management District.  But it was the Postal Service that reacted “lightning fast,” according to a CBS 4 broadcast.

“While the government has been known to move at a turtle’s pace, the response here was lightning fast.  As the USPS went through the process of getting a budget item approved for a long-term fix to the turtles in the pipe, their facilities management team figure out an inexpensive short-term fix:  an inexpensive screen from a home improvement store that cost about $10,” CBS 4 reported.

Working at lightning speed were Fort Lauderdale Postmaster Scott Bower; Sunrise Manager, Customer Service Marcos Glass; Customer Relations Coordinator Tashia Romano-Kravitz; Communications Ambassador Program Coordinator Lillian Castro; and Charisse Nadal, A/Manager, Consumer and Industry Contact.

“This is the kind of thing that people who work for cities, counties, states, or the federal government do on a day in, day out basis, and no one ever seems to hear about it,” praised a FDEP representative.