The Federal Emergency Management Agency

August 25, 2004

FEMA Issues Warning About Mold For Charley Victims

POSTED: 6:31 am EDT August 23, 2004

UPDATED: 7:30 am EDT August 23, 2004

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reporting

a sharp increase in the number of mold cases in Central Florida in

the last several days, according to Local 6 News.

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The lack of power and recent thunderstorm flooding are preventing

many properties from drying out, which is causing dangerous mold to

grow indoors.

FEMA has issued a mold alert and is asking people suffering from mold-

related problems to call the Environmental Protection Agency mold

hotline at (800) 438-4318.

Local 6 News featured on family in Seminole County whose home is

filled with mold. Pam Mallard said she cannot find help to clean the

mold and her elderly mother's life is in danger because of it.

" We have nobody to help us, " Mallard said. " We just need a general

contractor out here so we can get started on fixing our house before

she (mother) has to evacuate from the mold. "

Allstate Insurance said they can't send anyone out to the Mallard

house until September, Local 6 News reported. And FEMA said its

paperwork is in the mail.

However, a contractor who saw the Local 6 News story early Sunday has

stepped up to the challenge and will stop by the house Monday to see

what he can do, according to the report.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

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