By Luke McIlveen
The Courier Mail (Australia)
AT least 250 of New South Wales’s elite emergency workers have been told they could die from exposure to lethal levels of asbestos during anti-terrorist training drills.
The personnel at risk include members of the Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) unit, who were told last week that they may have contracted life-threatening illnesses after training on a demolition site at Holsworthy Army Barracks.
The site was set up to simulate rescues in the event of a terrorist attack or natural disaster and has been regularly used by fire brigade, ambulance, police and army personnel since 2004.
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