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Toxic Trailers: Particleboard Is The Culprit
By Kesshia Peyton Anchor/Reporter
Published: Thu, February 14, 2008 - 5:56 pm
Last Updated: Thu, February 14, 2008 - 6:01 pm
Last Updated: Thu, February 14, 2008 - 6:01 pm
Kesshia Peyton
The federal government says the 35,000 trailers still in use are giving off high levels of formaldehyde.
FEMA says it wants to get people out before the hot Summer months.
That's when the heat and lack ventilation make things worse.
In Moss Point and Pascagoula, Mississippi you can find FEMA trailers in almost every neighborhood.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says they need to move out as soon as possible because the trailers could be toxic.
The CDC can't say for sure that people became sick because of the high levels of formaldehyde, but it doesn't to put people's health in danger.
While some complained of headaches and nose bleeds Ralph Johnson of Moss Point can only remember a strange smell.
"It's an odor there that stays. It never goes away and when it gets hot, you can tell," said Ralph Johnson of Moss Point, Mississippi.
If you still live in a FEMA trailer, the CDC recommends you can improve ventilation by opening doors and windows and spend as much time outside as possible.
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i am the wife of a truck driver,and we travel along the gulfcoast weekly,and i have observed the spotty reconstruction that is here and there up and down the mississippi and louisiana area.why is there such a hardship for removing all the debri that is so evident. things are going so slow.