Source: PhillyBurbs.com

Pennsylvania State Rep. John T. Galloway has demanded that developer Stephen Ifshin of DLC Management Corp offer "immediate health examinations" and "pay all medical costs" to firefighters who performed a training exercise at Levittown Town Center, a 50-acre worksite owned by DLC and fined by the EPA for improper handling of asbestos, if the firefighters are found to have suffered from the exposure.

In 2002, members of various Bucks County fire companies took part in a training exercise where they had to cut through the Center's roof and fight a blaze inside of the building. The exercise took place after the EPA had found asbestos "strewn" over the entire site and had leveled a large fine against DLC and the subcontractor that worked the site. Even though the EPA had fined DLC, state, county and borough officials were never informed of the potential health risk and DLC let the scheduled exercise take place on their site without any warning.

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