1,500 gallons.

That’s the amount of water that Jason Brown, the president of Rainbow International’s Fairfield, N.J. location, estimates he pumped into his home’s basement on Sunday, Oct. 7. A basement that he says he paid $30,000 to refinish not many years prior.

On October 7, 2012 at 10 a.m., the Rainbow Disaster Team of the Tri-State Area will literally open the flood gates and unleash several hundred gallons of water in a relatively quiet suburban neighborhood. According to a press release, Jason Brown, President of Rainbow International of Fairfield, drew the shortest straw and it was that which determined his home would be the one flooded for a demonstration video the team is filming this month.

Select Academy, the Montreal, Quebec specialized cleaning school for disaster restoration and cleaning, will introduce a 2,000 square foot flood house on September 11, 2012, according to a press release.

In the United States, one in 10 children suffers from asthma but the potential environmental factors contributing to the disease are not well known. Cincinnati-based researchers now report new evidence that exposure to three types of mold during infancy may have a direct link to asthma development during childhood, according to ScienceDaily.