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BALTIMORE (Map, News) - Homestead-Wakefield Elementary School in Bel Air reopened Thursday after workers finished cleaning up asbestos disturbed by construction.
Officials said they were taking precautions to prevent a recurrence.
The school closed Wednesday after construction crews installing an air-conditioning system disturbed asbestos fibers that had flaked off old beams and collected inside ceiling tiles removed Monday night, spokesman Don Morrison said.
Testing during the school day Tuesday found airborne asbestos fibers, triggering the closure of the school for cleanup by an industrial decontamination crew.
Exposure was not enough to pose health risks, Morrison said.
To prevent more asbestos from getting into the air, the rest of the ceiling tiles in the entry area and main hallway have been removed, and plastic sheeting has been spread beneath the beams, Morrison said.
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Mike Crill said:
asbestos powder.hum. is that anything like asbestos dust or/and asbestos fibers.Asbestos has no safe limit to exposure.Specially if from Libby Mt.Very deadly fiber,Tremolite.One fiber in the lung leads to cancer.Dr.Irving Selokoff(sp)Do not down play the dangers of this fiber unless you want to be held for murder for knowingly allowing people to be exposed to something you/we knows that kills you.More people must be held accountable and we must do what we have to for the sake of those we all leave behind,our children and theirs.What else matters....They are the generation needing saved,by our generation.Thank you ps stay away from Libby Mt as Libby is not a safe place to live and raise a family.
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Sandtown said:
I don't know who puts out more misinformation, Unions or Politicians.
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