a famous cookie factory is about to crumble the Nabisco plant in Fairlawn is now slated for implosion on April 15th after closing its doors almost two years ago the announcement comes as residents in Glen Rock are raising concerns over the safety of the demolition Ted Goldberg spoke with residents of the iris Park neighborhood who live in the shadow of the Tower and are concerned about whether the plan is safe after 60 years of towering over Fairlawn the former Nabisco plant has exactly one month left demolition crews are tearing apart this building before an implosion crushes the rest of this famous cookie factory I remember going there for school field trips a big part of growing up here in Fairland was that fresh smell of fresh baked cookies you had the sweet smell of baking cookies here it's a little bit of an attraction and it's missed but whatever it's now we have a new world and a new A new challenge John Mulholland lives on Iris Circle the Housing Development closest to the plant like many of the folks who live here he's concerned about what might get kicked up in the air during the implosion everybody verbally said yeah everything is fine there's no asbestos there's no this there's no that this building is enormous it's been built in 1958 and it is loaded with asbestos why anybody said that there isn't is uh you know full shame on you Mulholland says there was a meeting in January where a contractor told residents that there was no asbestos in that building we went to the Department of Labor we went to the Environmental Protection on our own because we weren't getting answers and we did our own investigation and we found that there was asbestos and we still aren't sure about how it's being monitored they contract out to an asbestos specialist to remove it it's only developers doing it in themselves and then as the develop as they're moving it there you have to file the reports with our building department with State and what the our building department will do too is they will go to the facility and do checkups Kurt paluso is the mayor of Fairlawn he says Greek development which owns the property where the plant is followed state law and hired a company to remediate the asbestos Greek development didn't submit raw data but they gave a report stating under penalty of law that the building is free of asbestos in response to this story they tell us the asbestos was properly disposed of with all proper documentation peluso understands why people in Glenrock are upset but says his administration has provided plenty of information they weren't watching our Council meetings reading up on our minutes so we kind of assisted them and provided a lot more information we gave them a fact sheet that's on their website which is also on ours which is generally updated constantly updated based on what's going on on Schuman Jane also lives on Iris Circle he says that data isn't enough and he's all already seen damage to his home because of the demolition we have seen the cracks in the floor and the walls not just my houses next to here there are many houses in this complex who are facing this issue Jane's house is practically next to the plant he's concerned about possible health effects after the implosion happens if the same Trend continues how we're going to be sure that the air quality after the implosion with the implosion it will be safe it's going to be somewhat dangerous no one is going to be allowed to be within a certain radius of that for how long uh you know they're saying an hour but you know to me that sounds a little foolish some will be asked to evacuate and some will be asked to Bunker down we do not know where we'll be going how long we will be out the implosion is planned for April 15th residents only have a month to try and figure out how it could affect their homes and their health in Glenrock I'm Ted Goldberg NJ Spotlight news