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Wednesday, November 6
Mystery solved: what caused a mysterious bad smell in Los Angeles is already known
The investigation lasted two months. In early October, residents of the city of Carson, in Los Angeles County, began to notice an unpleasant odor , like a rotten egg according to picked up by The Washington Post .
Some of them – more than 3, 000-even had to be transferred to hotels paid for by the county.
“The smell in yes it was never a big problem for me. It was rather to wake up with the sensation of having left the gas on ”, the media quotes Mónica Álvarez, one of the people who, with her family, was temporarily taken to another place by the authorities.
Those who decided to stay at home received air purifiers.
The 12 a class action lawsuit was filed in November in Los Angeles Superior Court. It maintains that “the gas has caused and continues to cause physical harm to residents, and is interfering with their ability to use and enjoy their properties.”
There were also more than 4, 600 complaints .
Fire
The Management District South Coast Air Quality Survey in Los Angeles found the odor to be the product of the fire with three alarms in a warehouse that housed wellness and beauty products .
Those events occurred on 30 of September.
Officials already knew that the stench was produced by a colorless odorous gas called hydrogen sulfide, originated by matter decomposed organic; They presumed that it emanated from the Domínguez Canal, which runs through the city of Carson.
Later they discovered the issue of the fire in the alarms. After the fire was extinguished, the chemicals from the products flowed into the sewers and then into the Domínguez Canal .
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