Giant rats, bright green flies, putrid smells: Unbearable conditions near Boyle Heights warehouse, residents say

Along Union Pacific Avenue in Boyle Heights, rat traps sit about every 10 feet along the sidewalk, with the aim of catching hungry rodents drawn to the burned-out warehouse holding millions of pounds of rotting meat.

But Lisett Navarrete, a 34-year-old resident, has little faith that they’ll do the job.

“It’s not like little house rats. They’re giant rats,” she says. “They don’t fit there.”

Since the Lineage cold-storage warehouse burned last month, the company has been trying to remove tons of rotting meat…

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