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No asbestos found in residential areas near warehouse fire

According to the report, only three spots tested positive for asbestos of between five and 20 percent. All three of the positive tests were taken Friday from large material found less than 50 feet from the warehouse.
St. Louis firefighters can only watch as a fire rages out of control in a warehouse during a five-alarm fire in St. Louis on November 15, 2017. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI

ST. LOUIS – The results of EPA testing for asbestos after a massive warehouse fire last week were released in a St. Louis Department of Health report Monday.

According to the report, only three spots tested positive for asbestos of between five and 20 percent. All three of the positive tests were taken Friday from large material found less than 50 feet from the warehouse. The report said the material probably fell from the building.

Seventeen other samples of the immediate area taken on Friday of the warehouse did not trigger a positive test for asbestos. On Saturday, 59 samples of debris in the areas south and southeast of the fire were taken, but none tested positive for asbestos.

"All of the charred debris ejected during the fire and scattered downwind tested negative for asbestos," the report said.

The report said the Department of Health will provide reporting documents to neighborhood meetings in the area of the fire and post updates on the DOH website.

St. Louis DOH report on warehouse fire

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