Douglas Gray has been spending a lot of time inside his Columbus, Ohio, house lately.
He says he and his wife can't sit on their porch swing because the air smells so bad.
"Well, it's been smelling like rotten dead cows or something," Gray said. "But I found out later it was ham they had out there."
Across from the mobile home park where Gray lives is the warehouse that was destroyed by a fire nearly two weeks ago, WCMH reported.
The neighborhoods near the warehouse are catching the scent of rotting food.
The Columbus Fire Department said the cold-storage facility was storing 70 semi-trailers full of ham.
"This smell started about two or three days ago when it got hot," Gray said. Neighbor Jeananne Douglas agrees that the smell is strong, but sporadic.
"I guess the meat, the hams over there started thawing and it just, sometimes you could smell and sometimes you wouldn't," she said. "It seemed like when the wind would blow, whatever direction the wind was blowing, that's the ones who would get the smell."
The Ohio EPA issued a permit for the emergency destroying and disposal of the meat, but the warehouse's owners said the city hasn't issued a local permit yet.
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