Family Environmental assesses Sinclair Fire, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

First asbestos tests on smoke from Sinclair fire come back clean

Posted on Dec 22, 2009 by Cindy Hadish.

A Cedar Rapids firefighter sprays water on a smoldering fire Thursday at the Sinclair site from the ladder of one of the department's Quint trucks while demolition crews from D.W. Zinser work to knock down parts of the interconnected buildings. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

The first round of air testing from the Sinclair fire, conducted by an environmental firm for its own employees, showed no asbestos in the smoke plume.

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