Daniel
in the Lions Den! - in Manti Utah
A loving family in
Central Utah, accused of medical and nutritional neglect, was found
with a
lethal poisoning source from their house and water heating systems,
which was not considered, checked, tested, or identified! -- until a
caring
friend did its discovery -- saving this precious
Daniel and his family from his "fiery furnace"
-- in an echo of his righteous name sake -- the
harmless and loving, Guardian Angels worthy Prophet Daniel and his
Faithful Associates of Old!
This precious infant (click here or photo) almost lost his life as the
unusual deep and heavy snows,
unique
brutal cold and divergent weather patterns, conjoined with construction
and environmental errors, set the conditions for lethal levels of
vacuum-drawn furnace and water heater exhausts to enter and be
circulated in the in-house air
with chronic poisoning that most seriously affected him, then his
parents, specifically his father whose office was in the home and his
attending nursing
mother, then less, his (outdoor playing and socializing) young
brothers and older sisters. (Note: Because of their high metabolic and
rapid growth rates and its associated oxygen demands, newborn infants
have a greater than 20 times more susceptibility to Carbon Monoxide
poisoning than do middle adolescents or adults.)
Photos and videos showing Daniel's progress including:
Video of 4/3/08 added 5/7/08: See baby Daniel after one month of Good Air, Mom's good Milk, and Love!
See below the Photos, Videos, along with Medical, Environmental,
Mechanical and Legal diligence, discovery, evidence, with other experts
and
witnesses brought together and provided by that same persistent,
experienced friend, with his other State respected, licensed, and most
honorable associates.
What you see here is the real
cause of this infant's illness as well as the harm to the
rest of his family. And it is clear thousands more have also been harmed.
The
understanding presented in this website may help you
to identify any of the similar environmental conditions that may have
affected an unusual illness, harm, even mortality, in you, your infants, your family or in
the family of someone else you know.
If similar
conditions exist for you,
your discovery and effecting corrective actions, based upon the truth
we have herein exposed, can save your infant, your children, or your
own life! -- or the lives of others you love! -- just as it has saved
the life of
this precious infant,
and
the lives
of his family
who dearly love him. TLR
3/17/08
Evidence
on Film:
 1.
Video 1 (7 min. in FLV): Night filming of exhaust vapors
from Furnace (and water heater) to Fresh Air Adder
(aka "Positive Outside Air Intake Vent") -- which is supposed to route fresh outside air from above the roof and
add
it into the house air circulating stream at the furnace house air
fan...but in this case, as you see, instead of bringing in clean fresh
air, it is brings in toxic fumes from the furnace (and water heater)
exhaust! This
(7 minute) video production
is six of my rough recordings, spliced and prepared for fast
upload and easier viewing; and is the several hours gift of caring
labor
from my
son (who also is a well loved, very busy Bishop) Tom
Jr.
 "Fresh Air Adder" Contamination:
Furnace vapors
from
the larger flue stack (aka "Jack" or "Roof Jack") at right, with water heater stack seen just above
it, which are passing by and sucked into the "Fresh Air Adder" intake
stack (just left of furnace and water heater stacks -- click photo or here
to see roof photo full sized) which draws
fumes
(as you can see in photos and videos) down and through the automatically
opened, when fire
is burning, port into the blower chamber right
directly back into the house air under
the strong vacuum created by the
squirrel-cage blower in the furnace itself, which draws, mixes, then
pushes (recycles) the house air, along with the
contaminated toxic fumes from outside air
to pass through and be warmed in the heat exchanger, then routed out to
all the heat registers of the home -- the next closest register being
the very room where the baby was generally cared for and slept, and his
father had his (nearly 24/7 occupied) day office of labor, in the Master Bedroom!!! see diagram
 Combustion Air Choke
off: With an additive snow lay of only 6 inches (which
occurred
often during this winter), a choking off of combustion air (drafted
through the
larger outer section under the lower bonnet of the furnace
stack) begins to oxygen-starve the
furnace burners; then the CO emissions increase geometrically; and at 9
inches or more, a near to total starvation occurs to create lethal
levels
(see chart)
which enter and are mixed with the home air with the prevailing breezes
from the south west, as now are commonly experienced (see in video 1 above) with this
unique cold and heavy
snow, 2007-2008 winter season anomaly.
Cavitation:
At 1½ feet or
more of quick snow lay or a series of smaller accumulating layers,
along with Manti's subfreezing
temperatures causing surface hardening and a very durable crust icing,
an
underneath melt from the warmer roof surfaces above the furnace itself,
and water heater adjacent,
would have created an "igloo"
(cavitation)
advancing circle which would ultimately tie the furnace,
water heater and Fresh Air Adder stacks (at only 3½ foot
distant
bonnet to bonnet -- see photos) all together in a single connecting
cavity -- which would be maintainable for many days,
especially
on that self-shading North-facing roof of their home; and would have
allowed a
super doping of the house air with colorless, odorless, tasteless,
serious
biological damaging CO! (You will see evidence of this north
side cavitation phenomena in photos and
charts coming) - tlr 3/17/08
Summer Poisoning:
This subtle Carbon Monoxide poisoning of this
family also
occurred anytime the Air Conditioning mode of the Furnace / AC unit
(house air fan) was in operation, as the Fresh Air Adder also
opens its damper valve to likewise draw air from the roof
(under the furnace house air fan's strong
vacuum) which would be contaminated with the
water heater exhaust with this last year's unique pattern
(25 year El-Niño/La-Niña
change) of prevailing breezes. A worse
poisoning potentially also occurred under the quiet or "dead air"
weather stagnation periods common to last years hot summer days,
specifically because CO (though itself is slightly lighter than pure O2)
has ionic and surface bonding affinities to its
accompanying
deleterious (also toxic) burn products (CO2,
SO2, NO, NO2, HS2, H2CO, etc) gases, which
collectively are slightly heavier than (N2 rich, cleaner) ambient air;
and
(mixed with, holding and carrying their toxic companion
gas, CO)
would bloom,
cool and fall to mushroom and flow down the roof decline and into the
negative pressure area of the Fresh Air Adder and be vacuum drawn into
and
mixed into the home's air conditioned air. (The stagnant air state just
described for breezeless periods in Summer, also applies with far more
serious poisoning results in the dead air periods of Winter.)
Please note, that the Water Heater burns 32,000 btu
of gas in each hot water demanded firing all year long,
while the Furnace burns 90,000 btu; but only when it is called upon to
fire during cool or cold weather. So the Water Heater alone contributes
critically significant poisoning to the home's occupants as its fumes
are drafted in by the Fresh Air Adder and mixed into this
home's
interior air in the other half of the year, when the Air Conditioning
mode of the Furnace / AC unit is turned on and used. -- This made
the total CO poisoning potential for the occupants of this
home a
subtle and absolute, full, year-long event! - tlr 3/31/08
 2. Video 2 (3 min. in
FLV):
My daytime filming of Furnace and Water Heater flues and Fresh Air
Adder intake on roof, the furnace fresh air adder port and house air
circulating fan configuration inside the home, displayed audible and
visual
indications of the volumes of Fresh Air Adder (contaminated) air mixed into the
house air at its inside port, and finally the permanent,
secure closing and sealing
of that port
for the family's safety. -- tlr
3. a. (Optional)
Original Video A a
very large and clumsy file directly loaded from my camera and
is viewable only if you have 5-30 minutes for
uploading time,
even with
best High Speed Internet connection,)
-- It is already part of
the video at item 1. Video 1 (7min.
in FLV)
above.
-- Though
complete, and exactly as I shot it, this file is not in an Internet
friendly format, so is not as vivid as the newer format provided
by my
son above, so if you play it you must
look very carefully to
see the vapors passing directly from the furnace flue to the Fresh Air
Adder...and ladies, this unedited and
complete recording, is a "PG-13" movie,...sorry for my slipped words of
recorded anger as I realized -- "for hell's
sake" --
how close this chimney arrangement came to killing an infant and
potentially destroying a family, especially without
anyone else's correct diagnosis and diligence
(except mine) and "their"
returning them home again to the same hellish harm!
Please, forgive me; I was also once a rancher (it
paid for my
education) who dealt with obstinate cattle (just like some of my fellow
professionals) - and they never
responded to a gentle "please don't crush me (or any child) into the
rail! -- or thanks, that
kick at my head (or to my honorable facts) felt good"! I know
I should
try better not to lose it verbally, but doesn't my keeping
an infant and a family from being returned and left to be poisoned or
dying, give me
some credit for forgiveness for my slipped swear word or two?
-- especially in
my rage when a child is harmed and innocent parents (who
were also harmed) are accused --
while the actual guilty -- the stingy, incompetent contractors and their
"buddies" who certified the house as safe -- only to save a little money and
only a little bit more labor -- get away with
deception, theft and fraud, and, as it nearly was here, "negligent
homicide"!
--
See the safety inspection tag riveted on the
house. -- What a pathetic deadly joke! -- tlr
3. b. (Optional)
Original Video
B again optional and only viewable
if you have a Hi Speed connection and 10-50 minutes for uploading time.
-- This
footage is also included in item 1. Video 1 (7 min. in FLV) above This
second original recording was more vivid than my first recording in 1.
a. (Original) Video A above. With better angle of shot
and light this
footage shows more clearly the Furnace vapors
from
the larger flue stack at right, with water heater stack above
it, which are passing by and being sucked into the "Fresh Air Adder" at
left, in center.
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Still
Photos: -- sorry for
the large file size and long download times of
some of these photos.
These have been placed here in my haste to get you started with some
understanding. It takes many hours for me (with some
technical assistance from my son,
who is also a dedicated, very busy Bishop) to
reduce and re-post these and photos and videos, plus add the dozens
more,
as well as the charts and drawings that you need to also see.
4. The House at the South East (front) view
-- (faster loading file is now here):
Notice, you can only view and just barely see the water heater
stack over the
ridge line of the roof. You cannot see the Furnace and Fresh Air Adder
stacks near it. So you see how low they are and
easily choked or covered with snow!
5. Front of House Full
view (from South). Again as in previous photo,
you can only see the water heater flue barely above ridge, others
stacks are not visible.
6. Rear of House (from
North) See short flues and fresh-air-adder at left all in
tight cluster and easily choked or covered by snow. Cover
with snow? Furnace Combustion Air! Yes!-big "Problem-o!"
Lethal levels of CO!
7. The Fresh Air Adder, the Furnace
and Water Heater stacks -- (faster
loading file here) Too short and all in a tight cluster! See
another view of Flues and fresh air adder intake cluster
from on roof (photo taken as I am standing at ridge, with kind Glen
Bair's halogen lamp stand secured and visible at the roof's edge, and
my sleeping bag at distance in back of the house, on the crusted snow
where I shivered at night to catch the furnace (and water
heater)
vapor flows in their treacherous acts of passing towards and entering
into the Fresh Air Adder and into the house, as recorded in Videos above - tlr).
Now that you have
seen the exhaust and fresh air adder arrangement; please re-read
(review) the combustion
air supply snow pile-up, choke-off and
cavitation issues as described in my video explanation in third paragraph following item
1. Video (in FLV),
above. It should now be disturbingly clear to you, shortcuts
like this in construction, can asphyxiate a child and harm a family --
including yours!
Please
check your own chimneys for
this problem (especially more problematic if yours is also
on a north facing roof like this
one). (More description of error and code violation will be added here
tlr)
More
links & descriptions with photos, videos. charts &
documents are coming. -- Please return! TLR 3/24/08
Father's Statement:
The knowledge of the true cause of Daniel’s trouble has been
discovered and irrefutably proven: the house which we
purchased upon our move to Manti
(in full faith and
trust of safety, as is certified on the house
tags
riveted outside on each half section *tlr), was
dangerously set up for a serious carbon monoxide problem –
which
was exponentially compounded by heavy snows on the roof – and
our
first winter here just happened to be the biggest snow fall
year in 25 years.
The preceding winters of little or no appreciable snow, saved the
original family and owners from experiencing the far more concentrated
levels of
Carbon Monoxide which we had in this unusual high snow, high
precipitation winter (see combustion air choke down
explanation in photos
& drawings to be provided here *tlr);
however
the original family did have unexplained health problems, including
an infant who was very sick towards the end of a winter, and now, as a
little girl has a speech impediment and a learning disability.
The extremely hazardous way in which the furnace system of our home was
installed was quickly identified by our experienced friend who first sensed (through 2 brief phone calls,
Feb 10 & 11 *tlr) , then
viewed in us, with his certainty, our physical indications of environmental poisoning (during a simple 15
minute visual
contact, two days later in a Feb 13th visit at Daniel's
pediatric unit in Salt Lake City *tlr). After finishing his week of labors at the Utah State Legislative Session (using
all day Saturday, and Sunday afternoon for preparation *tlr), in
the evening of Sunday Feb 17th, he traveled (the 140 miles *tlr) to Manti. Monday morning Feb18th, 2008, our caring (expert) friend had his first view of our home (from outside only, while vacant and locked *tlr); wherein he
observed, discovered, and with trustworthy (Utah State Certified) associates as witnesses, began the
disclosure and documentation of
our dangerous furnace exhaust and fresh air adder
installations.
After returning home (Feb 25th *tlr)
from our hospital
stay, we received a call from our friend and were informed of our home
heating's dangerous situation – and so, as he instructed, we
ran
our furnace with opened windows to combat the problem until he could
return and mitigate the situation.
In the early morning of Feb
29th, the 4th day after our return, our friend
arrived, brought Media (John Hale of the Sanpete
Messenger / Deseret News *tlr) and (former *tlr) Senator
Parley Hellewell (owner
of PPM
Inc.
Orem Utah; a Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning and State Certified
CO monitoring corporation operator for many years *tlr) with his State Certified CO specialist, Michael Anderson, as well as
local Plumbing Contractor, Scott Layton (owner operator of Layton Plumbing, Manti Utah *tlr),
to witness and third-party-certify what he had
already now disclosed. He also has had several
other trustworthy and State Certified experts (to be referenced herein later
*tlr) to witness and
certify his findings during his investigation and disclosure.
These have all
been brought together
by this experienced expert and caring friend of many years, Thomas
Rodgers, who selflessly used his medical, environmental and
mechanical training, and diagnostic expertise -- persisted,
and did
the required Diligence, Discovery and Disclosure of our home's toxic CO
problem.
On that same day, February 29th, the fresh
air adder port into furnace house
air fan chamber was sealed (during his first
interior access - then permanently
Mar 12 *tlr), so that the strong suction
produced by the main (house air
circulating *tlr) furnace
fan can no longer draw
any more toxic exhaust in from
the roof – and
we've been running the furnace with windows sufficiently opened (as instructed *tlr)
so that the home can obtain enough fresh air to now safely allow our
infant and family to breathe cleanly.
Many people have now witnessed video footage of the furnace exhaust
being drawn right back into the house via the fresh-air adder, which
unfortunately was installed with great negligence – in
extremely
close proximity to the furnace and hot water heater exhaust flues on
the roof…and especially hazardous to our local snow
potential
conditions – since
those flues are also very short and stubby and happen to be
located on the north-facing, shady side of the roof where snow is
protected from the sun and inclined to pile up and remain.
The combustion
air supply return on the furnace flue begins to be blocked off with
just 6 inches of snow on the roof – and is completely blocked
off
with only 9 inches of snow on the roof. That
greatly
diminishes the oxygen supply to the combustion chamber of the furnace
and exponentially increases the carbon monoxide levels in the exhaust
– which has had easy access for re-entry into the living
quarters
via the fresh-air adder – hazardously installed in very close
proximity (under 4 ft
*tlr) to where the exhaust exits the flues.
We hope that this information helps the good people in our community
understand our own situation more fully – and encourages them
to
check their own homes; especially those in manufactured (modular) homes
which were built out of area and moved in and not re-outfitted
for
our high mountain valley snow potentials – as our friend has
disclosed.
We are grateful to this wise, dedicated and very kind friend, Thomas
Rodgers for his discovering this extremely
serious life-threatening situation – who persisted as a
stranger
and persona-non-grata, to do the required diligence and get the
information out to our local (and
State *tlr) media, Utah State and Community officials
– and to those listening families with similar violations of
furnace installations that he noted and also worries about in our community and everywhere.
Thank you,
The Grateful Father of Baby Daniel.
See Video footage, photos and other information above and herein linked:
*Notes inserted in (italics -*tlr): is data added for medical,
technical and legal clarity by Thomas Rodgers
Father's illuminating Letter:
Now
see the Father's
wonderful letter which describes the parents life experience, his
medical
training, perspective and wisdom, which had already benefited their
older children, now preserving their baby, and was written in
the
hospital
towards the end of baby Daniel's 14 days
of hospital stay:
Many of my
Professional Fellows, Locally and Nationally, who have
seen
the data and now understand the truth in this family's house and water
heating poisoning situation and events, have stated that if the
family had not already been living
such a careful,
healthy lifestyle, which they had been living long before
they moved into this home and gave
birth to Daniel, and this undiscovered, unique and subtle, immune system suppressing
winter-long exhaust
poisoning
event had been additionally complicated with
Winter's otherwise easily transmitted communicative viral and bacterial illnesses,
it could have assuredly killed the baby and more severely harmed
the older members of the family, even mortally!
TLR 3/24/08
Notice the
devastating change a winter of breathing undetected toxic
vapors does bring to a whole family:
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This picture of this handsome Family was taken prior
to
their trusting purchase and move into their Manti home,
and depicts the comfort and closeness of this well bonded, carefully
living, happy family, (as witnessed by their old Ward, friends
and
neighbors in Salt Lake) with each enjoying their lives together in
unencumbered health and vigor.
This picture was taken in
Salt Lake, Fall of 2006.
Their Manti home was purchased in May of
2007.
Baby
Daniel was then born August 31, 2007, just at the beginning of this
year's deviant Winter of unusually
deep snow with deep cold and abnormally high heating demands. TLR 3/25/08.
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After a full winter of being poisoned by odorless, tasteless,
colorless Carbon Monoxide fumes, David, is clearly
viewed
here as gaunt and weakened.
In voice and
view, David's
physical decline was immediately obvious to me (with my experience in
Pathology) as the signs of
subtle poisoning, which matched the fact that his work-day is
in
inside the same home, with the same furnace and water heater
situation that
severely poisoned his baby!
My caring and kind friend, Honorable Senator
Parley Hellewell (drove 92 miles and gave up a morning
without pay for me, so that he and his specialist
could witness my disclosure and verify my findings) explains to baby
Daniels' father, David
how this error
in design and installation by the (modular home) builder
and getting past inspection, harmed his precious
infant, as well as him and his
entire family, all seriously and potentially mortally. TLR 3/25/08.
Click photo or here
for better view of Senator Hellewell & David.
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Subsequent documents provided by
Father:
Dear
friends:
Please be patient with me as I do all
other tasks to
inform my legislative, administrative, legal and media friends of the
data which exonerates this innocent family and also labor to inform you
of
facts through these time demanding web pages, while I also must help
take
care of other people's problems, even nationally and internationally,
and also meet my family and personal obligations on my scant resources
only.
Do you know of anyone else who cares for an infant
or friend, or is just too plain dumb to know better, so gives up
comfort, time and will drive 140
miles a half dozen times and more, just to set outside in the night and
only get fits of
sleep in the sub freezing cold to catch a killing furnace in the
act?
Then tolerate (for the moment) the obstruction of the
offending (modular home) contractors and their collaborators as
their expositor while I do this labor simply out of
shear love for the physical safety and well being of precious infants
and their innocent families.
Maybe they are right and I am truly nuts! But at
least I
don't have to apologize to my Maker and His Angels for it! He holds the
lives of infants and
families as most precious too! -- So do I! -- So I know I am OK with
Him
in this one!
Thanks for your patience and
understanding. Please share this site and its lifesaving furnace flue
information.
(More photos, videos, charts, expletive drawings
and document links will
be added as my time and resources permit, so please plan to return.)
Also see an earlier case involving an older Conventionally Constructed Home
(as seen in FamilyVsState.org)
with furnace replacement that caused death of one infant -- and a year
later nearly killed another, as the whole surviving family, just like
this family, was allowed and left to return, remain and
live in their same toxic home, and they would have been further
poisoned or
died had I not been brought in, did my genuine diligence and discovery
-- just as
I have done in this
current case! You will see the Contractor, Inspection,
Bureaucratic, Medical and
Legal
incompetence, evasion of responsibility, collusion and cover up,
leaving the innocent victimized family still "guilty", damaged and
bankrupt; and even now, 7 years later, still never exonerated, they are
struggling to recover and survive, while never recompensed for the
death of their first precious son, nor the bogus treatment
charges
and damages to their second.
Please
be aware of your own potential Carbon Monoxide poisoning risks - and
that of your single moms, young families, elderly or
handicapped neighbors.
Absolutely make sure your own and their flues do not get or
remain covered with snow. Absolutely make sure the combustion
air
intakes -- normally the lower bonnet over the fatter pipe -- also is
open and clear of snow. And that fumes are not being brought back into
your home (though a too close Fresh Air Adder stack, as you have seen
and learned about here, or other close openings into house interior
air).
As I have traveled to document this family's
home, I passed scores
of similarly configured homes and permanently set house trailers in my
route; and I also have been told of several unusual
infant and elderly deaths in the Community in this deep snow and extra
cold Winter.
There are several hundreds of these short
stacked,
close fresh air intake configured manufactured homes and trailers in
this one County alone. I have sighted and observed hundreds (now along with currently adding reports, there are apparently thousands) more
throughout the West and the Central United States -- anywhere and
especially where low
cost housing is provided for and occupied by rural or migrant laborers!
Many living in the manufactured and
mobile homes set
for the Hurricane Katrina victims have also suffered similar poisonings
in this years unusual brutal Winter which they in the Midwest and Gulf Coast also experienced as well!
(but the "Authorities" have tried to blame it all
on H2CO, ie. Formaldehyde, from
three year
old dried glues? Please spare me that
diversionary ignorance! Remember Formaldehyde, H2CO, is a gas burn exhaust product always accompanying Carbon Monoxide.) Pathetically most of those FEMA contracted, HUD
specs conformed manufactured homes and trailers have the same
or similar heating exhaust installation configuration lunacy as was
designed, approved and delivered in this Manti Utah family's
manufactured home.
Carbon
Monoxide is the
number one accidental poisoning event in the U.S. (and in the World);
yet is the number one untested, unreported, untracked,
intentionally ignored and uncorrected poisoning cause.
Why? Its
simple identifying test cost is only about $40 and its actual treatment
is very cheap: Simple Clean Air! -- while psuedo-diagnosing, claiming
and treating for each of the every other disease symptoms
it causes or mimics,
saves the Construction and Inspection Agencies only a
little more
labor, materials and money, while it brings Medicine, Bureaucracy, the
Courts and the Law endless thousands of dollars -- through unwitting,
chronically CO damaged patients and their marketable
children!
So please check your own homes for
the same Exhaust
Fumes contamination possibilities that you have seen and learned of
here. Save your infants, your loved ones and yourselves. Sadly
it
appears that too many in whom we have placed our implicit trust and
generously paid, have acted
without competence or honesty, nor truly cared about you and your
family's health or safety over their own convenience, commodity,
prestige and profit!
Please help me get this word
out!
Much of the Local and National Media and Bureaucracy have had this
information but with all else happening in the news, most have not yet
been able to create and publish the
story to everyone that needs it. You, I, our Nation's vulnerable
infants and
effected families personally cannot wait, while the Mainstream Media do
their (legal - which they must) research, write and carefully edit to
not libel
the Industry who may or may not have created this
problem in the first place, or the Bureaucracy who may or may not
have allowed it, or the Medical establishment (including
the Pediatric and Psychiatric - treating the consequent physiological
and neurological damage) and all their associates, who,
by default, may have overlooked correct diagnoses and true cause, yet
have profited from it! So I beg you to please accelerate this
information by not waiting, for the time being, by bypassing their
time demanding and cumbersome
broadcast media and newspaper processes, and share
this site with all you know, while also contacting and encouraging all
Media
and Government efforts for
me. -- We still have more Winter and cold nights ahead, and families are yet being
poisoned, with their innocent babies (the house bound elderly and handicapped) still being damaged, and more potentially
dying! -- I experientially and logically
know it, and this website proves it. And without instant broad and
caring cooperation, I feel frustrated and helpless to stop it -- even
if it is only to save one more infant or one more family member from
being damaged or lost to another poisonous day and night.
 Questions
or challenges refer to:
Thomas Rodgers,
[ LifeSave
Biological Research & Education,
PO Box 304, Bountiful,Utah 84011-0304 ]
801-298-9095
(or Tom@LifeSave.org)
Flier |
The State and the Feds with HUD, and their Medical contractors,
including CPS, have allowed conditions for your and your children's harm,
then profit from your consequent illnesses, even deaths!
