A Marine veteran who lost both of his legs to an illness thanked his community for helping his family exterminate the rats that forced him out of his Irvine home.

"It makes me feel like there are kind people still in the world," Marine veteran Tom Steen said. "And all of what's going on in this world right now, to see that and know that people care, it helps me get over how I feel about myself and all of this."

Earlier this month, neighbors on Typee Way reached out to CBS LA after rats from Steen's home spilled out into the streets and into their homes and yards. Some of them said their cars had been damaged after the rodents chewed through wires. Steen, his wife and his mother-in-law were hospitalized at the end of October.

A pest control expert was allowed inside the home and said

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