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To prevent explosions, FEMA paints stove knobs red in Katrina victims' trailers

BILOXI, Miss. Trying to prevent deadly explosions, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has sent contractors to over 100-thousand government-issue trailers on the Gulf Coast to paint stove knobs a distinctive red.
FE-MA spokesman Aaron Walker says the change will help trailer residents tell the difference between the knobs that control the igniters and those that operate the burners on propane stoves.

Walker says four gas- or stove-related fires in FE-MA trailers have been reported in Louisiana, including one in April that killed a man in Slidell. He said FE-MA has had no reports of gas or stove fires in Mississippi.

Investigators blamed the deadly explosion in Slidell on propane that leaked from the trailer's stove when the knobs for two burners were left switched on.

Walker says workers in Mississippi have painted the knobs on about 85 percent of up to 40-thousand in the state.

In Louisiana, around 20 percent of the knobs in 70-thousand trailers have been painted red.

Gulfport Fire Chief Pat Sullivan says his department has responded to dozens of fires in FE-MA trailers since Hurricane Katrina.

Sullivan says some were caused by propane leaks, others by faulty wiring, cigarettes or food left in the oven or on the stove too long.


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I tend think this is gonna work itself w/o FEMA's help.