Article: WHISTLEBLOWER; Asbestos costs family now and maybe later; A botched job and an emergency cleanup have cost thousands and caused worries about future health problems.(NEWS)

Byline: JAMES ELI SHIFFER; STAFF WRITER

Fearing for her family's health, Sherene O'Hern hastily left her apartment on May 16 with her fiance and their 2-year-old son. When she returned a few days later, she was wearing a full body protective suit, goggles and a respirator.

A botched furnace replacement project commissioned by the landlords had released flakes of asbestos from old pipe insulation, contaminating the basement and potentially O'Hern's ground floor unit with the cancer-causing fibers. As a result, the duplex at 4917-19 Vincent Av. S. in Minneapolis became the site of an emergency asbestos cleanup and an investigation by the Minnesota ...

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