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Article: 35,000 must move out of FEMA's travel trailers; The chemical-laden air inside trailers used by hurricane victims is potentially unsafe to breathe, the Centers for Disease Control says .(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- February 15, 2008
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Byline: Tom Meersman; Staff Writer
More than 35,000 hurricane victims on the Gulf Coast will be moved into new housing in the next few months, after the chemical-laden air inside their FEMA travel trailers was deemed potentially unsafe to breathe, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday.
The CDC's announcement doesn't apply to those living in thousands of FEMA mobile homes, 93 of which are sheltering flood victims in southeastern Minnesota. But the air inside the mobile homes, some of which have been donated or sold to private owners, is also being tested for levels of formaldehyde, a wood preservative used in glue that bonds ...