Win For FEMA Trailer Residents

Last month we wrote about the Current TV pod called 2 Years in a FEMA Trailer.  Yes, it’s been over two years since Hurricane Katrina (and Rita) and there are 35,000 FEMA trailers still in use.  Families of six people even in a tiny trailer.  As the video shows, many of the trailers are built so poorly and have a very high concentration of formaldehyde.  Many trailers are 5 times the levels of a normal home, but there are some that tested as much as 50 times the normal amount.  Your eyes will start burning, get headaches, shortness of breath and you can get nose bleeds just from being in the enclosed trailer.

FEMA is trying to get everyone out of the trailers by this summer before the temperatures get too hot.  The heat can accelerate the amount of formaldehyde present in the air.

Last week, congressional Democrats accused FEMA of manipulating scientific research in order to play down the danger posed by formaldehyde in the trailers.

Sen. Barack Obama, who has criticized FEMA’s response in the past, called for President Bush on Thursday to “immediately find safe shelter for these families, who have suffered so much.”

Source: CNN Health, Green Daily