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    PCB's "For days, you would just be blowing that stuff out of your nose" - Confined Space
    The firefighters knew about PCBs and had asked the utility as early as 1976 whether the donated oil contained them. According to an internal department memo, BGE officials repeatedly told them the oil did not. One fire official cited in the memo said a BGE official in 1977 told him, 'That stuff won't hurt you anyway, my guys wash their hands in it.'
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