Glen Burnie
Lifestyle
Baltimore Rat Rubout team takes 235,000 service calls a year
The small white utility van comes to a stop along the curb in the 500 block of North Glover Street. Donald Brooks, a 43-year veteran with the Department of Public Works’ Rat Rubout program opens the rear doors, with a large stop sign-shaped sticker in the window reading “Warning Pesticides.” He pulls out a handful of yellow caution flags along with a duster, which is used to spray poisonous tracking powder into rat burrows. Members of the city’s pest control team make their way through trash-filled alleys in East Baltimore on this cool morning, inspecting them for signs of...
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