Allergy News: Mold Allergy in School
Mold
Found In Four Papillion La Vista Schools
Professional Cleaning Crews Disinfecting
Rooms
Tad Davis, Staff Writer
POSTED: 5:48 p.m. CST January 3, 2003
UPDATED: 5:53 p.m. CST January 3, 2003
PAPILLION, Neb. -- Officials with the Papillion La Vista School District
announced Friday they've found mold in five classrooms at four different
schools.
Portable classrooms at Rumsey Station Elementary, Tara Heights Elementary,
Hickory Hills Elementary and Papillion Junior High School are affected.
Professional cleaning crews are tearing out carpet and just about
everything else from inside the classrooms. Carpets will be replaced and
the rest of the contents must be disinfected.
Officials found the mold after a student at Rumsey Station Elementary
started developing allergy problems. A doctor suggested something at the
school was the cause.
"We had a concern from a parent, so we did some testing. And then once the
mold was discovered here, we tested all the portable classrooms throughout
the school district and discovered the three other portables that needed
to be closed," Papillion La Vista Schools official Annette Eyman said.
Cleaning crews worked at all four schools on Friday. Officials said
another firm will return later to the same classrooms and inspect them.
"At this point right now, they have not found actual toxic mold. It's been
the allergy mold. But there are still mold samples that are being tested,"
Eyman said.
Many parents and kids in the district were not aware until Friday about
the mold problem.
The district plans to conduct more air quality tests inside the schools
after the cleaning is complete. Until then they're sure the mold has been
completely removed, students will be moved to temporary classrooms.
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