It was their dream home until the hoarder next door turned it into a pricey prison

Los Angeles Times via Yahoo ^ | July 7, 2024 | Harriet Ryan

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a mentally ill hoarder, has turned some six acres of green space into an unlicensed dump with more than a hundred rusting vehicles, mounds of trash and scrap metal, and hazardous waste that has polluted the ground and a nearby streambed.

Hypodermic needles, bags of marijuana, moldy clothes, human excrement, tires and condoms littered the street

Malone, Ryan and others living nearby have begged elected leaders and nearly a dozen government agencies for help for years

Fires have broken out repeatedly at Ferrera's illicit junkyard, where there are numerous containers of propane and other flammable liquids.

They counted 114 vehicles, including five the California Highway Patrol deemed “of interest,” suggesting they had been stolen or were suspected of involvement in a crime

They also found two shipping containers being used as living space, a trailer, dismantled car batteries, leaking high-voltage power equipment and a device that looked like a military-grade bomb. An ordnance disposal team summoned from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton determined the object was a practice munition and destroyed its fuse to render it safe

ests on soil samples taken from the junkyard and a streambed revealed levels of arsenic, lead, cobalt and other substances that exceeded federal safety standards, according to the EPA report, which concluded that the property contained “high levels of hazardous substances.”

an otherworldly landscape that included a tipped-over ambulance, part of a jetliner and a giant forklift

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