spent the day with one his things a little bit differently. >> borrows closer holes and see the borrows like, yeah, definitely this side of the on a bright and sunny at the rec killer nigh went on the hunt for rat's nest in Yorkville, like many neighborhoods, it's an area flooded with rodent complaints that climbing up the side of the building. You can see out the window come out and I have tickets and a with the came in and starts killing. It didn't take long. >> We found at least 4 active. We're at Burroughs in the tree beds on East 95th Street off First Avenue. And you right here. >> This is they come out here and they go right out here and you see is thing. This is digging. >> Matt D with Urban Pest Management is using a method less common than the typical rat bait stations. At most exterminators put out. It's called Bureau x. He puts the hose down into the rat holes. He bureau actually sheen his eye color nop side and they are dying from ocean to the problem and outside. If you have an active area, it eliminated within 2 to 5 minutes and in a city where people are phase by very little. >> This gassing of the rat Burrows stopped New Yorkers in their tracks. >> Showed me with And yes, sometimes that does happen every once in a while. So should the big guys will come up and no actually try push this down and popping up to the bottom? It didn't happen this time, but it did on DOD autos last job in prospect Lefferts Gardens. New Eric of a narrow who lives on East 95th Street calls the block rat. Ali. >> And blames the garbage thrown out bags, especially behind a public school, to pay the about this high. So if you're walking there like frolicking just waste Haifa, new than they should have been czar, something the says the proper bins are key. He showed us what happens when you use just traditional was yes, those holes he says are from chewing right through the cans. Big hole in the palace here. These are all the things that make it just so easy for them to survive. >> The rules around curbside trash pickup will be changing in April. You'll have to put it out later at night. So it doesn't sit as long. The city also still trying to hire a rat czar. All of this as data from 3, 1, 1, shows that requests for help with rats jumped by about 1500 calls from 2021 to 2020 to It's it's winning battles. I think the war in the end is And part of that battle, the rats have been getting into cars and shooting up wires. It's happening to about 30% of all cars brought into mechanics in these colder months. So what can you do to protebecit ngy to
