FEMA to continue trailer distribution

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

FEMA to continue trailer distribution By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 37 minutes ago



LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday it will distribute mobile homes to victims of last week's tornadoes in Arkansas and Tennessee, despite a health warning about high formaldehyde levels in other trailers, officials said Thursday.

James McIntyre, a FEMA spokesman, said the agency would begin to process mobile homes stored at the Hope airport for distribution to victims of the Feb. 5 storms. McIntyre said FEMA will not be "putting anything on hold."

In Atlanta earlier Thursday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced some trailers had levels of formaldehyde that were nearly 40 times customary exposure levels. The CDC urged that Gulf Coast hurricane victims living in government-owned trailers move out.

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Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spokesman Jeremy Heidt said FEMA officials assured them any mobile homes shipped to his state would be tested.

"We're convinced they're safe," Heidt said.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080214/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/toxic_trailers

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So they are going to test them after they arrive in the states? Something seems really wrong with this scenario.

[CountAllVotes]

1. kinda screws up Plan A; on to Plan B now it seems

Unused FEMA Trailers To Go To Native Americans
Sunday, June 24, 2007 12:41:13 PM

Hundreds of unused FEMA trailers still waiting for Hurricane Katrina victims will go to Native Americans throughout the country.

Thousands of trailers have been sitting in Arkansas and Texas for the last couple of years. They were originally intended for Katrina victims, but FEMA said it could not distribute the trailers because they could not be placed in flood plains.

Last year South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson pushed through legislation that allowed FEMA to sell or donate the trailers.

Johnson said many Native Americans are struggling with inadequate housing. An estimated 90,000 Native American families are homeless or under housed.

http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2007/6/24/unused_fema_trailers_donated_to_native_americans.html

Are these the same trailers PERHAPS? :grr:

What is the real "agenda" I concur!

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[madmax]

2. You beat me to it.

I just read this article. :kick:

[flashl]

3. FEMA obviously is not conferring with or chose to ignore CDC

LBN DU Post - CDC Confirms Health Risks to Occupants of Trailers

Federal health officials have confirmed that high levels of
formaldehyde gas pose health risks to hurricane victims housed
in 38,000 government trailers on the Gulf Coast, and will
recommend that occupants be moved before temperatures rise
this spring and summer, Bush administration officials disclosed
yesterday.

Federal scientists will say that those who have chronic health
conditions such as asthma, families with children, and older
residents should be moved first. The Federal Emergency Management
Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plan to
discuss the recommendation today in New Orleans and to begin
consultations with all of the roughly 100,000 trailer occupants,
an official said.

[JBoy]

4. This whole FEMA trailer thing is one massive cluster-fuck.

Both FEMA and the CDC need to be investigated over this fiasco.

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