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Article: ASBESTOS FOUND AT SCHOOL EXPOSURE `MINIMAL'.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- May 27, 2000
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Byline: Orith Goldberg Staff Writer
NEWHALL - Workers suited in hazardous materials gear descended on Wiley Canyon School this week after asbestos was released into the air during the demolition of a portable classroom, part of a campus renovation.
The asbestos fibers had been contained in floor tiles under carpeting - a fact that was missed in a 1989 survey commissioned by the Newhall School District to determine the extent of the suspected carcinogen in its facilities, said Don Hughes, the district's assistant superintendent of business.
In the classroom, the asbestos posed no threat. But the demolition May 18 may have posed a health hazard ...