Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Asbestos scare closes Madison Square Garden

Officials in New York's iconic Madison Square Garden decided the city's landmark Tuesday after suspicious, dusty dirt into the arena fell to close.


The fear was raised sometime Monday night after the Rangers hockey game, if overnight of maintenance crews asbestos-related materials in the attic above the upper limit were cleaning and fell some dirt in the arena. The Garden brought two environmental security-consulting company, to test the rubble for asbestos fibres.


The garden was confirmed reopened Wednesday evening after air of quality tests your was no asbestos in the arena.


Exposure to asbestos has mesothelioma, a deadly cancer of the lining of the lung attached. Before the 1970s asbestos was widely used in building materials, and is still in many older buildings. Fortunately that is only a threat to people, asbestos in construction materials after becoming it through the air and was disturbed.


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