Another Governement Blunder: FEMA Homes Toxic

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Well it looks like our government has done it again. When Katrina hit more than two years ago, the government agency, known as FEMA[The Federal Emergency Management Agency) set up temporary mobile homes for displaced persons hit and affected by the Katrina victims until they could find permanent homes. Now it's disclosed that all these mobile units are toxic and creating severe health problems for those living in them. More than 38,000 people are living in these homes. Here's the article: (quote) ..."More than two years after residents of FEMA trailers deployed along the Mississippi Gulf Coast began complaining of breathing difficulties, nosebleeds and persistent headaches, U.S. health officials announced Thursday that long-awaited government tests found potentially hazardous levels of toxic formaldehyde gas in both travel trailers and mobile homes provided by the agency. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which requested the testing by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said it would work aggressively to relocate all residents of the temporary housing as soon as possible. Levels of formaldehyde gas in 519 trailer and mobile homes tested by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Louisiana and Mississippi were — on average — about five times what people are exposed to in most modern homes, the CDC reported. In some trailers, the levels were nearly 40 times customary exposure levels, raising fears that residents could suffer respiratory problems and potentially other long-term health effects, it said. At a news conference Thursday in New Orleans, CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding urged the Federal Emergency Management Agency to relocate residents before summer, when heat would be expected to cause the formaldehyde levels to increase, with priority given to families with children, elderly people or anyone with asthma or other chronic conditions. FEMA Director David Paulison, who also spoke at the news conference, said he believed his agency could meet that goal despite a shortage of affordable housing plaguing areas of the Gulf Coast afflicted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005....." For more of the article go here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23168160/ So what kind of a-holes run FEMA anyway? Those mobile homes cost money, and no doubt paid for through taxpayer's money...and this is what those people got???? Toxic homes? What kind of stupidity is this anyway? Many of those people no doubt have no proper health care insurance...so now who is going to foot the bill for health related issues due to them being exposed to toxic substances due to these homes???