County’s Pest-Control Agency Opens New Disease-Fighting Headquarters
Santa Fe Springs has become a front line in the fight against disease-carrying insects with the opening this week of the new mission-style headquarters of the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District.
After operating for 42 years out of South Gate, the district’s entire staff of entomologists, lab technicians and mosquito trappers have relocated to a new 40,000-square-foot building at 12545 Florence Ave.
They brought with them 40 vehicles, including all-terrain trucks and water craft, to use in fighting dangerous parasites.
The building is centered on a conference room equipped to seat the district’s 35 trustees--one for each member city plus one representing the county as a whole.
District manager Jack Hazelrigg said an entire 21,000-square-foot wing of the building is dedicated to an insectarium and laboratories where scientists can monitor mosquito populations.
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