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California Resident Aims to Cleans Up ‘Third World’ Conditions in San Francisco
By Ilene Eng

SAN FRANCISCO⁠—San Francisco has a problem with garbage, including human waste and needles on the street. Bridget Patten hopes to clear away 70 tons of it.

Patten was out and about in San Francisco one day when she realized how bad things had gotten in the city.

“It broke my heart,” she said.

“I stepped out of my car, I went to cross the street and I almost stepped on a heroin needle. It really opened my eyes to the epidemic, and the drug use, and the homelessness.

“After that, I drove up and down Hyde and east of the Tenderloin and I watched drug deals. I watched people defecating on the sidewalk. I watched people dying on the sidewalk.”

She isn’t the only one who feels San Francisco has gotten into a bad state.

“It’s becoming a health crisis,” said DeAnna Lorraine, a congressional candidate who has been active in clean-up initiatives. “I’ve talked to a lot of dog owners … who were walking their pets on the streets. And they said their dogs have accidentally stepped onto hypodermic needles or got infections from trash on the streets.”

Patten hopes to do what she can to clean things up. Her goal is to clear 70 tons of garbage from the streets in an effort she’s coordinating on Jan. 20, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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