Draft plan: FEMA may use trailers in new disaster (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Mon, 06/02/2008 - 5:31pm

In this March 2, 2007 file photo, a pickup truck tows one of about 20,000 mobile homes and travel trailers owned by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from Hope Municipal Airport near Hope, Ark.<br /><br />The government may house disaster victims in trailers again this hurricane season as a last resort, despite promises never to use them again because of safety hazards in trailers used after Hurrican Katrina.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)AP - The government may house disaster victims in trailers this hurricane season as a last resort, despite promises never to use them again because of high levels of formaldehyde found in trailers used after the Katrina catastrophe.




 

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