Rats Overrun Neighborhood In Orange County
POSTED: Wednesday, March 22, 2006
UPDATED: 9:53 am EST March 23,
2006
Homeowners in an Orange County, Fla., neighborhood claim their community has been overrun by rats big enough to pick fights with small dogs, according to a Local 6 News report.
Residents in the Conway Acres neighborhood in Orange County said the rats are scurrying around their neighborhood 24 hours a day.
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Homeowners said they have seen the rats running on power lines into homes."The rats are running off that power line and that telephone pole into this line and into the house," homeowner Andy Price said."They say some of these rats are so big that if they wanted to, they could pick a fight with a small dog," Local 6 reporter Todd Jurkowski said.Neighbors said a home that was left in deplorable condition after Hurricane Charley provided a structure for the rats to multiply unnoticed. The rats then apparently spread throughout the neighborhood, according to the report.Orange County code enforcement has ordered the homeowner to get a pest control company to assess the damage and kill the rats.Local 6 News was not able to contact the owner of the home.A town meeting will be held next week with experts from the health department offering tips on how to end the infestation.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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VIDEO: See The Story Homeowners said they have seen the rats running on power lines into homes."The rats are running off that power line and that telephone pole into this line and into the house," homeowner Andy Price said."They say some of these rats are so big that if they wanted to, they could pick a fight with a small dog," Local 6 reporter Todd Jurkowski said.Neighbors said a home that was left in deplorable condition after Hurricane Charley provided a structure for the rats to multiply unnoticed. The rats then apparently spread throughout the neighborhood, according to the report.Orange County code enforcement has ordered the homeowner to get a pest control company to assess the damage and kill the rats.Local 6 News was not able to contact the owner of the home.A town meeting will be held next week with experts from the health department offering tips on how to end the infestation.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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