Katrina Victims

The Katrina victims are victimized again by toxic FEMA trailers they have been given to live in. Formaldehyde levels are so high they are making people sick. So high, in fact, that FEMA has ordered its employees to stay out of them, not even long enough "quickly to shut a vent.”

FEMA says its order only applies to trailers that are closed up in storage in the hot sun. Employees are permitted to go in and out of lived-in trailers. How often do they do that? The people who are living in the trailers 24 hours a day, particularly the children, are suffering from headaches, nose bleeds, asthma and skin rashes.

Formaldehyde is classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as a carcinogen.