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Rats infest Bellmore house on Sandy-flooded street

Originally published: February 21, 2013 6:45 PM
Updated: February 21, 2013 10:22 PM
By CAROL POLSKY carol.polsky@newsday.com

Chris Panza crouches inside his children's play room

Photo credit: Steve Pfost | Chris Panza crouches inside his children's play room where traps are laid in his home in Bellmore infested with rats. (Feb. 21, 2013)

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Rats have forced a Bellmore family out of their house on a block flooded by superstorm Sandy.

Thursday, contractors found burrows and gnawed wall holes from the attic to the lower level playroom, and will begin ripping out walls early next week to ferret out the invaders and make them easier to exterminate.

"I'm shocked," said Chris Panza, 35, a salesman at a corrugated box company,...

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