FEMA plans trailer exodus over chemical
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After downplaying the risks for months, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday it will rush to move Gulf Coast hurricane victims out of roughly 35,000 government-issued trailers because tests found dangerous levels of formaldehyde fumes.
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Aaron Walker, press secretary for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, submitted his resignation to FEMA administrator David Paulison Wednesday, according to a FEMA official.
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The controversial pesticide is used to protect new homes from termites. The move by the chemical company ends speculation that the administration might extend a phaseout deadline the two parties negotiated four years ago.
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By The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Dec. 15--A Beaumont man died from smoke inhalation Thursday after a fire started in his FEMA trailer, according to Beaumont Fire Department officials.
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Many of the government-supplied  trailers housing thousands of people displaced by Hurricane  Katrina contain potentially dangerous levels of the chemical  formaldehyde, U.S. federal health officials said on Thursday.
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The Army Corps of Engineers is rethinking the way it assesses hurricane risk.
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Mobile homes provided to victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 contain unsafe levels of cancer-causing chemicals and the 39,000 families still living in them should be relocated as soon as possible, health officials said Thursday.
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Emergency services deal with a chemical scare on a beach after oil barrels cause noxious fumes.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is accused of refusing to acknowledge high levels of formaldehyde in trailers it provided to hurricane evacuees on the Gulf Coast.
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Those trailers the Federal Emergency Management Agency bought to house Hurricane Katrina victims were at the center of the storm again yesterday -- and not in a way that's going to make folks at the beleaguered agency any happier.
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ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 6  /PRNewswire/ -- With another hurricane season upon us, the chemical industry is prepared to build on the successful actions taken last year to weather devastating hurricanes like Katrina and Rita.
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U.S. health officials are urging that Gulf Coast hurricane victims be moved out of their government-issued trailers as quickly as possible after tests found toxic levels of formaldehyde fumes.
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Residents of the coastal town devastated by a mudslide that killed 10 people will be offered a package of federal loans and grants intended to help them relocate.
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By Priscilla Frulla, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Dec. 18--BILOXI -- More than 31,000 trailers are still in use in South Mississippi. With government housing scheduled to end in just two months, many people still don't have a clue where they will go. Gov.
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Police cars patrolled the streets after the Floridians were told to evacuate the dangerous areas, Sept. 25, 2004.(Xinhua/AFP Photo).
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A STREET of 24 homes built on land contaminated by a cancer- causing chemical is to be knocked down.  A pounds 1million-plus project to demolish and rebuild the houses is to go ahead after the Executive yesterday pledged pounds 751,000 for a clean-up.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has sold trailers to victims of the 2005 hurricanes at prices that range from $1  to $20,000, under inconsistent policies  that prompted a temporary ban on all trailer sales, according to a new government report.