The Cell Phone "Tower of Doom"
They call it the "Tower of Doom". It is a cell phone tower on an apartment building in London, England. Orange, the owner of one of the cell phone masts on the tower, is removing it after 7 residents were struck down by cancer.
The cancer rate on the top floor of the apartment building is 10 times the national average. Residents of five of the eight apartments on the top floor have been affected with three of them dying.
Many of the 110 residents of the building complain of terrible headaches and other health problems which they believe the cell phone towers are responsible for.
It took a five year campaign by residents and pressure from the local authority to get Orange to remove their mast. The problem? They are moving it to a nearby residential area. Vodaphone, owners of the other mast on the tower, have no plans to move theirs.
World Health Organisation guidelines have dismissed the risks of masts despite other evidence which has found they are harmful.
A spokesman for Orange said the company takes health and safety very seriously.
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