Mold has been an issue in the city of Mobile fire stations for a long time now and still is a problem for all fire stations with a flat top roof. Some kinds of mold found in some of these fire stations are listed as follows geotrichum, aspergillus, sporothrix, verticillum, scedosporium sp, alternaria, aspergillus niger, penicillium, trichoderma, scopulariopsis, cladosporium, yeast, and arsenic.
The local union IAFF 1349 has addressed this issue with the Fire Chief and Mayor and asked action to be taken in this matter of repairing all of the affected and infected city fire stations with mold. The Mayor has taken action in this matter to begin repairing and renovating the fire stations with fire station 16 being the first to get its face lift.
The following fire stations have been closed and are listed as follows fire station 18, 20 and station 16 that has been recently reopened after two years after major renovation. These three fire stations are just the few of many in the city of Mobile that have had mold problems for many years. The other fire stations that are infested and need to be renovated are stations 21, 23, 15, 11, 22, and 19.
The problem with all these fire stations is they all have flat tarred type roofs and were built in the 50s.
With these flat tarred type roofs through many years of leaks where water leaked into the buildings and none of the wood was replaced but only the roof was patched with tar. This wet and most environment in the attics and upper structure of these fire stations became a perfect breeding ground for all the types of mold listed in this article.
If affected by these types of mold you may have problems such as sinus, ear infections, chronic lung disease, bronchial infections, oral infections, vaginal infections, cutaneous infections, alimentary infections, pulmonary disease, nasal congestion, skin irritation, headache, eye irritation, runny nose, cough, sore throat, bleeding lungs, memory loss, and arthraligia.
These are just some of the health problems you and our fire fighters are exposed to by being in any of the fire stations listed in this article that has not been renovated. A local privately owned news paper did a report on the problem with mold at local Mobile fire stations and you can find them online at the link below.
http://http://www.lagniappemobile.com/contact
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Mold can cause serious health problems. For accurate information about the health effects of mold, go to truthaboutmold.info.
Like you don't have enough to deal w/fighting fires, you have mold to deal with!
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