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Police have blocked off entrances and exits in an effort to compel the miners to come out.

Another neighbor drove her car directly through the Jensens property to escape the inferno, which had already blocked off the sole escape route.

I said it would be cool if the Sheriff’s Department blocked off Atlantic, but only if it allowed people to take it over, a la a block party.

Sheriff’s Department and California Highway Patrol had blocked off the intersection of Whittier and Atlantic boulevards in an effort to stymie cruising, but to no avail — cars merely did a U-turn on Hillview Avenue.

“It smells like a rough combination of sewage and dead fish. We live half a block off the beach and the smell has completely filled the air today,” Venice resident Harrison Macks said Tuesday.