Petition to Coast Guard: Keep Searching for SS El Faro

Croton firefighters are encouraging people to sign an online petition that urges the Coast Guard to resume the search for the SS El Faro, the containership that went missing after it reported losing propulsion at the center of Hurricane Joaquin.

Longtime firefighter Frank Pusatere’s son Richard was an officer on the ship.

SEE: Croton Native Among Missing as Search for Ship Suspended

The petition says:

The US Coast Guard has done a fantastic job searching for the crew, but we are asking that they give it more time. Six days is well within the survival window for any trained mariner in a lifeboat and or life raft. These lifeboats and rafts are provided with food and water. Only one lifeboat was recovered and only one lift raft; there are 4 more remaining. The body found in the survival suit is evidence that the crew was trying to abandon ship. Survival suits would not have been donned until the crew was actively abandoning ship. These twenty-eight Americans deserve our best efforts in locating them as long as they have a possibility of survival. We are well within the survival window for this tragedy. There are hundreds of islands in the Bahamas, many are uninhabited.

Croton firefighters posted about it on Facebook: