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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. We aren't in Arlington. My only concern with trailors is what the kids are exposed to. When the government provided trailors to all the people who lost homes in Louisinna-didn't people get really sick because the trailors had crazy levels of something?[/quote]

The trailers that FEMA purchased for emergency housing were never designed for that purpose.  These were trailers designed for short-term use, like overnight lodgings at a campground or something similar.  They were made with less expensive materials including particle board and composite woods that had toxins like formaldehyde in.  These were relatively new trailers and hadn't had time for the materials to outgas and release their fumes.  If they had purchased them some time before and they had outgassed, or if they were made with better materials, or if the inhabitants were truly short-term, then there wouldn't have been the problems.  But, alas, new composite materials plus long-term exposure lead to those illnesses.

I have no idea the condition of the new school trailers, but hopefully, they are better construction and use materials such as real whole wood instead of composite and other materials that need to outgas.[/quote]

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