HONOLULU (KHON2) — Residents of a public housing facility on Oahu said they have dealt with flies, rats and a hideous stench for weeks.
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Some reached out to KHON2’s Report It feature to try to help clean things up.
“You talking rats, you talking maggots, you talking food rotting,” Punchbowl Home resident Allen Torres said.
The dumpster in Punchbowl Home public housing has gotten so full that residents are being asked to bring their trash outside near the parking lot.
“We cannot go and dump the rubbish over there. We have to walk all the way around because I guess the smell and the flies are coming out of that door,” said Michelle, a caretaker at Punchbowl Home.
“It’s terrible, it stinks. There’s flies, there’s rats, there’s mice,” another resident said, “and the cats are eating the mice, you know, so it’s a rotating problem.”
Trash chutes on every floor have been locked so more garbage is not dumped down, but making the walk around the building is not easy for everyone.