WASHINGTON -- FEMA will replace fas...

WASHINGTON -- FEMA will replace fastenings on as many as 118000 trailers used by means of Gulf Coast hurricane victims after discovering the same guide could open many of the mobile households

single manufacturer cut only 50 different kinds of first note of the scales for the trailers it sold to FEMA, officials said Monday. That means, in a worst-case scenario, single in kind key could be used to lay open up to 10 mobile residences in a park of 500 trailers.

FEMA officials said as it is a situation was unlikely, unless they still moved to warn storm evacuees living in Louisiana and Mississippi trailer parks of the security risk.

"We are working aggressively to establish the magnitude of the problem and determine the best solution for the safety and security of those who now reside in these trailer units," said Gil Jamieson, representative director of Gulf Coast regaining for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

He said FEMA was "asking residents to be extra vigilant and take precautions to fixed the trailer that they occupy"

LIMITED KINDS OF lock-ups

It is unknown by what means many trailers will need to have their fastenings replaced, said FEMA spokesman Pat Philbin.

Sen Mary Landrieu (D-La.) called the hug risk "very troubling."

"While this progressive growth certainly adds to a lengthy list of oversights lost in the dysfunctional bureaucracy of the agency, I'm encouraged that FEMA has already begun to take degrees to ensure the security of the residents entrusted to it," Landrieu said.

The riddle stems from a limited number of kinds of enclosures -- three -- that trailer manufacturers use when building mobile dwellings FEMA officials said. That increases the likelihood of grapples being the same, they said.

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