Rotten smell reeks havoc across Southern California

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Los Angeles Times -  9/10/12

By Hector Becerra, Phil Willon and Andrew Blankstein

A massive fish die-off in the Salton Sea is the prime suspect in a rotten smell that swept the region, but experts can't recall a bad odor ever traveling so far.

When the rotten egg smell wafted into the Santa Clarita United Methodist Church in Saugus on Monday morning, Kathy Gray thought the church's sewer pipe had burst.

More than 70 miles to the east, steelworker Chris Tatum's nostrils got the punch in Riverside. He assumed a brush fire had just broken out. "It reeks," he said. "It smells like rotten mush."

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