Pecan Valley, TX – Susan Leach walked through Ellen Vest’s ruined Shady Shores home Wednesday, wagging her head at how fast mold had bloomed green on Vest’s furniture. “We’ve seen it in every house,” Leach said. Leach is a new volunteer with the Pecan Valley chapter of the American Red Cross. For the past nearly […]
Reno, NV – Black mold has turned up at the Reno airport. But officials say the toxic fungus in Concourse B has been sealed off and poses no health threat until it cam be professionally removed in a couple of weeks. A worker discovered the mold while repairing sections of interior wall in November. The […]
Fresno, CA – The day Michelle Seniff found out that a black mold inside her Visalia rental home might have killed her 16-month-old son was the day she left. When Rob Seniff got home from his job at a cheese processing plant that February day two years ago, the Seniffs fled the house, leaving everything […]
8/8/02 Rocklin, CA- Tenants have filed a lawsuit against their Rocklin apartment complex owner because their apartments contain toxic mold that is making them sick. The tenants’ attorneys say tests show that the mold levels inside certain Park Village units are 10 to 100 times the normal. Tenant Morgan Fedora says that she has gone […]
They say the fungus causes health problems. Insurance companies say covering mold claims would make rates rise again since they couldn’t make much profits. 8/20/02 Temple Terrace, FL – Staffers for Florida Insurance Commissioner Tom Gallagher came to the Tampa Bay area Monday to hear homeowners and insurance officials complain about a burgeoning problem with toxic […]
3/12/03 Atlanta, GA – The Atlanta City Council will meet Monday night in regular session to discuss items including a mold problem and delay in improvements at the airport. City Manager Mike Ahrens said the city has a contract with the Texas Department of Transportation to make some improvements at the Atlanta Hall-Miller Airport, but […]
Tampa, FL – Any way you look at mold in Florida – either as a legitimate health threat or as an overblown nuisance – you’ve got to figure this icky mess will cost somebody, and unfortunately most responsible parties do not want to take responsibility. Insurers claim they are getting socked with claims on homeowners’ insurance […]
9/1/02 Danbury, Connecticut – Across the country, headlines tell the horror stories of indoor mold: Schools are closed; families abandon homes with breakfast dishes still in the sink; Ed McMahon’s dog dies; lawsuits by sick workers threaten to bankrupt businesses. The tales are terrifying and true. Indoor mold a genuine health threat that is turning into […]
8/8/02 Coatesville, PA – Reports of mold in the Coatesville Area Ninth and Tenth Grade Center have prompted the administration to hire an engineering firm to inspect the building, said Superintendent James T. Scarnati. A full report of findings along with short-term and long-term solutions is to be presented in time for the December board […]
Construction crews and school officials showed off a newly reopened St. Charles East High School on Thursday, more than a year after the far west suburban high school was closed because of potentially hazardous levels of mold. The $17 million, 10-month job was painstaking work, said David Kedrowski, project manager for the company that oversaw […]
If county commissioners rushed back to their respective precincts Tuesday to work on something less complicated — like county roads — most Henderson County residents would understand. They probably didn’t run for office thinking they’d spend so much time wrestling with spores instead of ditches and road graders. But the four commissioners and County Judge […]
HARLAN TOWNSHIP – In 1998 Dale Fry was an energetic landscape subcontractor with a healthy young family moving into a new Warren County home. Soon afterward, Mr. Fry, a nonsmoker with no history of respiratory problems, began suffering from chronic coughing, shortness of breath, headaches and dizziness. His four children, ages 2 to 8, later […]
Following Supertyphoon Pongsona, some homes and other building may be threatened by another danger-growth of mold. The Federal Emergency Management Agency warned that mold spores thrives in continuously wet conditions and can start to grow within 24 hours from the time the dampness occurred. Mold spores can structurally damage buildings and pose a health hazardous. […]
When Martindale Mayor Maebeth Bagley announced a Federal Emergency Management Agency buy out last month for 36 homeowners whose properties were damaged in the floods of October 1998 and November 2001, she expressed hopes that the program would be completed and residents moved out of flood-prone areas before floodwaters raised the San Marcos River once […]
FLORENCE – Two schools contaminated by toxic mold last April have been given a clean bill of health. An environmental consultant told the Board of Education and 15 spectators last night there is no trace of Stachybotrys atra in the Roebling or Marcella L. Duffy elementary schools. “All parties involved are satisfied the schools are […]
The Georgia Southern University Eagles’ locker room wasn’t the only musty and damp place on campus this summer. Four types of mold – including the toxic mold stachybotrys – were found growing in several campus buildings following reports of allergy-like illness. “We live in a hot, humid climate and sometimes things like this happen,” said […]
Faculty and staff in four mold-infested buildings at Georgia Southern University are breathing easier as university officials complete cleanup and try to prevent future problems. Student Health Services Director Lynn Tabor pointed up at the rusty heating and air conditioning fan coil unit above his office doorway and described how it was cleaned out and […]
PLAINVIEW – Hale County has joined the ranks of counties and schools in the area battling against mold, but local officials say they are fortunate their problem hasn’t grown as big as some. “We’ve got ours pretty well under control,” said Judge Bill Hollars. “I guess we’re pretty lucky we got on it quick and […]
It’s a tropical oasis on Waikiki Beach with waterfalls, exotic birds and palm trees, a hotel that has hosted everyone from U.S. presidents to Michael Jackson. Now, it has an unwanted guest: mold. The Hilton Hawaiian Village, one of the largest hotels in the world, has closed guest rooms in the newest of its six […]
ST. PAUL, MN – Have you found yourself suffering shortness of breath, headaches, acid reflux or are you just not feeling quite right, but you can’t attribute it to any specific cause? Perhaps you’ve found it hard to concentrate and you feel fatigued easily, but haven’t been able to figure out why. If you live or […]
I will attempt to tell you the reality of the war, the chase, and its effects. If there had been help, if their had been a bomb shelter, if there had been a reaching hand, if there is any reaching hand I PRAY LORD PLEASE HEAR OUR CRIES. I was engaged, in love and anticipating […]
I work at Lockheed-Martin in Eagan. The employer has known about a building wide ‘cladosporium’ problem for over a year, and I have been living in an environment where the visible colonies of the mold have grown since the tests ordered by my physician confirmed the cladosporium content was 940 c.f.u.’s per cm. and at […]
Stachybotrys can infest a House. Does it cause brain damage? Some say ‘Yes’. Workers are now trying to save Brockovich’s house from toxic mold. It is an expensive job. Since the movie bearing her name appeared, everyone knows who Erin Brockovich is: the working mother who traced illnesses in a small California town to groundwater […]
Heyyyy-yo! Ed’s dog is dead–and he’s suing mad. Former Tonight Show sidekick Ed McMahon and his wife, Pamela, have filed a $20 million-plus lawsuit accusing his insurance company and contractors of making a toxic-mold ‘wasteland’ of his Beverly Hills home and leaving him and his wife ‘seriously ill’. Not to mention claiming the life of […]
I have recently moved back to Pittsburgh, PA from Florida and reside in a renovated railroad station which houses up-scale apartments. I live on the top floor of the building. I have lived here about 6 months; over the last 2 months, I have experienced certain symptoms which I did not know to put down […]
Ok. Let’s hope this does more good than bad. About a year ago I took my 4 month old baby to the doctor, she was having real bad allergic reactions. She kept breaking out in a red rash in different places on her body, mostly her face. Other symptoms were runny nose, swollen and watery […]
I was exposed to mold in my workplace for 6 months and now have allergies to almost everything I come into contact on a daily basis. I filed a workman’s comp claim only to have it denied and awaiting an appeal. I have documentation on the mold situation, and the types they found from Boelter […]
We have been exposed to toxic mold that made us desperately ill and we nearly lost one child. The insurance company first denied the mold?s existence and then failed to report to us the poisonous levels they detected. Our situation highlights the trauma that can be inflicted on a family if toxic mold is not […]
I am a single parent who gave up a beautiful large apartment in another section of my city and moved into a upper middle class neighborhood closer to work, and rented a townhouse by the lake. The landlord when showing me the townhouse told me that when the homes were built, they installed sump pumps […]
Let me begin by introducing myself. My name is Gina L. and I moved into the apartments at La Venezia in November 2002. We moved out in April 2003. My husband, 3-year-old son and I were very impressed with the spacious apartment we moved into (Apartment 212). We wanted to make it homey and nice. […]
On Sept 5, 2000 I was admitted to Berkshire medical center in Pittsfield Mass. with acute respiratory distress at that time from an unknown source. Shortly after my addition I worsened and an elective intubations was performed and I was placed in intensive care. Several days later I was exuberated and a team of pulmonary […]
I own and operated a food wholesale business in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and have been renting this small 2000 square foot warehouse/office for the last 8 years. My problem with toxic mould started when I did not demand the landlord renovate my bathroom before signing the lease and accepting the terms and conditions. Today, I […]
My 6 year old daughter started kindergarten at Sawmillwoods Elementary School in Whiteland, IN. Two weeks after starting school she became ill. Asthma is what the Doctor’s said she had. The school never notified any of the parents there was a mold issue in the school. Then an article in the Daily Journal appeared about […]
My name is Janet Stevens and I am employed at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. I am a GS 9 Tech Info Specialist and have been an employee for 16 years. I worked in this flooding moldy basement for eight years then above for three years with holes in the floor and an open freight elevator. […]
I would like to tell you about a recent occurrence (problem) I have just experienced. I was told years ago that I was definitely exposed to mold in a apt in which I was living. An environmental agency, (the president, no less) saw the mold, & told me I needed to move immediately, or I […]
From MOLD: A Mold Property and Personal Injury Litigation Magazine “This mold is everywhere, and when I try to clean it, it moves.” “The mold is alive. It’s eating my bedspread.” “If I stand too close to someone talking on a cell phone or near any towers, I can feel the radio waves going through […]
Hello, my name is Sharon and I live in Georgia. We had moved up here from West Palm Beach, FL, hopefully being able to settle in and plan for our retirement. But obviously things did not work out as we had planned. This is a story that I wouldn’t wish on anybody that would have […]
From 1996 until 2000 I lived with my lover, an Episcopal priest, in the brownstone rectory of his New York City Church. In the spring of 2000 I developed what I thought was sinusitis, violent headaches and fevers. My condition did not respond to antibiotics. I slipped into a coma and was taken by ambulance […]
Please read my story! I am not a writer, or computer savvy. I don’t know how to use spell check either. So please forgive me, and do not judge my lack of skills. I am however, a medical mystery to all the general physicians I have seen (approx 5), and the various Specialists. My hope […]
My husband and I moved down from Portland, Oregon to Waterford, California in December 1998 to open a pet store. My sister found the building and talked with the landowner. She told me that the carpet was in need of being stretched, but other than that the building was in an ideal setting and was […]
A nasty mold at the Governor’s Mansion sent South Carolina ‘s first family packing. The building – reopened three years ago after the state spent $5.6 million renovating the downtown Columbia building – has been home to governors since the 1870s and was built as faculty quarters for Arsenal Military Academy in 1856. First lady […]
PINE RIDGE, S.D. – After living in their Pine Ridge Indian Reservation home for 12 years, Jerome High Horse’s family moved out in 2002 because black mold made living conditions unbearable. “It looked like somebody took black paint and started to paint in the corners of the walls and ran it down to the floor,” […]
“The Employer and the Union jointly recognize the importance of maintaining a safe environment. The Employer agrees to comply with all State and Federal OSHA requirements. The Employer agrees to continue present practices regarding floor slats and mats, and to review all new facilities with regard to such present practices.” A Local 681 member complained […]
Faster than this fungi can colonize ceiling tiles, it has spread across headlines in Texas. Its alleged effects are nightmare material: respiratory trouble, fever, headaches, rashes, bloody noses, memory loss, infant pulmonary hemorrhage. Its names sound equally insidious: black mold. Toxic black mold. Stachybotrys. But now that black mold traces have been found in dark […]
It’s no secret there’s mold in the Henderson County Courthouse. What hasn’t been clear until now is what kind, how much and how harmful. Now we know: some black mold (known as stachybotrys) and lots of aspergillus mold has been identified; and, yes, both can be harmful. The Athens Daily Review has obtained a preliminary […]
CANONSBURG — Mold remediation is a relatively new industry in Western Pa. Martin Zupancic is a trend setter. As the owner of the ServiceMaster Co. franchise in Canonsburg, Washington County, Mr. Zupancic is likely to find himself extremely busy in the coming months with a relatively new, albeit common problem — black mold. He is […]
Like a convict on death row, Frances Prescott spends her life in a gas chamber waiting for the poison to kill her. Red and Frances Prescott’s home in the southern George County community of Basin has been invaded by black mold that is spreading through their ceiling and walls. Some of the airborne mold spores […]
CALN — Reports of mold in the Coatesville Area Ninth and 10th Grade Center have prompted the administration to hire an engineering firm to inspect the building, said Superintendent James T. Scarnati. A full report of findings along with short-term and long-term solutions is to be presented in time for the December board meeting. In […]
Washington, DC – Like the ubiquitous fungi blamed for an insurance crisis in Texas, the issue of toxic-building mold has grown in the nation’s capital. A bill introduced in the House on Thursday is the first national legislation of its kind dealing with the issue of toxic mold and, if passed, would require the Environmental […]
Washington DC – The discovery of extensive mold contamination in property throughout the United States has led to the introduction of legislation in various states in an effort to combat this problem. Representatives from California, Maryland, New York, and Texas have all introduced legislation that focuses on educating and protecting the public from the potentially […]
 
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