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Now, the larger format provides enough backroom space to sort donations, so garbage bags of donated clothing don’t spill out onto the sidewalk.

“Out in the wild, they’re trying to build up their calories through berries and insects. But when they come across garbage in a neighborhood, that’s all the calories they need in one spot.”

There are underground fires burning in at least two landfills in Southern California — smoldering chemical reactions that are incinerating buried garbage, releasing toxic fumes and spewing liquid waste.

He had bought the land in 2018 for just $156,000, cleared the garbage on it, and built the home along with a large shop for his vehicles, including an excavator.

A vast canyon of buried garbage has been smoldering inside a landfill in the Santa Clarita Valley, inducing geysers of liquid waste onto the surface and noxious fumes into the air.