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Updated: Thursday, November 27 2014, 11:07 AM EST

By: CBS 21 Web Staff

OKLAHOMA CITY -- No one wants to call a plumber on Thanksgiving Day or the day after. As people are cooking dinner Thursday, there are a few things to keep in mind so a plumber doesn't need to unclog the kitchen sink.

There are several things people can do to avoid clogging the sink. The obvious one is to not cram large amount of food down the sink.

Plumbers say there are also other things people can do to not have to call them on their busiest day of the year.

"Usually the disposals don't have much horsepower, you'll find. So the more you shove in there, the less chance it has to handle the amount of stuff that goes in there and it'll short out the disposal to the point that it'll stop working," plumber Anthony Malmo said. "For the most part, it's the food getting clogged up in the drain and your Thanksgiving dinner fills up inside your sink and there's a bunch of water that's not able to go down."

Some of the stuff people shouldn't shove down the drains are pizza, bread and stuffing. They will get clogged easily.

Grapes, cranberries, and smaller items are okay. But the important thing is to make sure water is running while food is being put down the drain to make the water is pulling the food down.

"You notice that we have the water running," Malmo said. "As it's going and we want to run it for a long period of time."

If grease gets into the drain, plumbers say to run cold water.

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A plumber and Oakwood Beach resident on the job in Harlem sprung into action Tuesday when he raced into a burning apartment building and rescued an octogenarian woman, according to a report in the New York Daily News.

Anthony Titulli, 43, and his team from Village Plumbing and Heating were installing a sprinkler system down the block when he saw flames coming out of the Frederick Douglas Boulevard building, located near W. 139 street and raced inside, according to the report.

He told the woman "hold on, you're going for a ride," picked her up in his arms like a child and carried her outside the building to safety, the News reported

The incident occurred at about 9:15 a.m. and left a minimum of at least 17 of the building's residents homeless.

"I feel bad that it's Thanksgiving and they're out of their homes," Tatulli told the News. "That's what bothers me. I'm going to have dinner with my family and some of these people won't have a home to return to."

When reached at home by the Advance, Titulli was modest about his heroics.

"I was coming out from a project," Titulli said. "We dialed 911 on my phone and me and a couple of employees went inside. The building was pretty much full of smoke."

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A multi-county Central Texas program for farmers and ranchers conducted by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in District 8 is scheduled Dec. 11.

The District 8 Farm and Ranch Seminar will be offered at 13 locations across Central Texas, including in Brazos, Robertson, Leon and Milam counties. The majority of the program will be online with live video of speakers from across the state.

Private Applicators License holders must obtain 15 hours of CEUs every five years to renew/recertify their license, including two hours of laws and regulations, two hours of integrated pest management (IPM) and any mix of these and general hours to equal the required 15 hours of CEUs. Licensed commercial and non-commercial applicators are required to recertify every year by obtaining five continuing education credits with one credit each from two of the following categories: laws and regulations, integrated pest management or drift minimization.

The seminar will provide participants with the opportunity to receive up to eight CEUs. Of these eight hours, four hours will be in General, one hour in Drift Minimization, one hour in IPM and two hour in Laws and Regulations. Licensed commercial and non-commercial applicators will be able to obtain their required five hours within the first five hours of the program.

Topics and speakers include:

Laws and Regulations related to Pesticide Applicators presented by local county extension agents;

Pest Control Around the Home & Barn: Mike Merchant, professor and extension urban entomologist;

Calibration & Nozzle Selection to Reduce Spray Drift: Matt Matocha, extension program specialist;

Forage Pest Management: Allen Knutson, professor and extension entomologist;

Identification & Control of Noxious Weeds: Vanessa Corriher-Olson, associate professor and extension forage specialist;

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The creation of a new pest management area in the Hunua Ranges will provide a sensible, holistic approach to the care and control of one of Aucklands most important ecological areas, according to Auckland Council.

A successful collaboration between the Auckland and Waikato regional councils has led to the creation of the Hunua Ranges Pest Management Area, which will unify the work being done to manage the area.

Comprising the Hunua Ranges regional parks (including Whakatiwai and Waharau) and an adjoining buffer area, a consistent pest management programme in the Waikato Regional Pest Management Plan (RPMP) will now be implemented under the management of Auckland Council.

Auckland Council Environment, Climate Change and Natural Heritage Committee Chairperson Councillor Wayne Walker says that the agreement is an important step towards improving care of the ranges.

"We are pleased that we have been able to work with Waikato Regional Council to enhance our commitment to caring for this incredibly important ecological and water catchment area," he says.

"This joined-up approach will mean that the residents of the area and the wider Auckland population can be assured that there is a comprehensive and efficient pest management plan in place.

"It will safeguard the future of the ranges from several invasive pests, including provisions to combat kauri dieback, better manage the feral pigs and goats that roam the ranges, through control and permitted hunting, and prevent feral deer establishing there.

"This will make a significant difference to the management of the area, and make pest management in the area more transparent and efficient," he says.

The agreement to create the management area stems from the 2010 boundary adjustments, which meant that each council became responsible for a part of the ranges.

Kevin Collins, Natural Heritage Programme Manager from Waikato Regional Council says that the unified approach was the best way forward.

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Rats like these are common in Stockholm. Photo: TT

Sweden is experiencing a rapid increase in its rat population according to the country's biggest pest control company, which says that the growing trend for outdoor food stalls is partly to blame.

The whiskered animals are becoming more commonplace as "more people eat out, take fast food and go to the growing numbers of food trucks and stands," according to Sven Jeppsson, spokesperson for Swedish pest control firm Anticimex.

He also notes that household waste is increasingly being stored outside apartment blocks, rather than indoors.

"So the rats have more opportunities to source food from us and multiply than when we just dined at home," he tells The Local.

Across Sweden, 33,960 cases of rats were reported in 2013, compared to 29,006 in 2011.

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A young north Alabama boy was buried today after dying from a brown recluse spider bite.

Five-year-old Branson Carlisle died earlier this week in Marshall County after being bitten by a brown recluse spider. His doctors said he had a severe reaction to the bite.

Brian Lynch with Pest Control Experts said this is the time of year spiders start trying to get in homes.

"People usually come in contact with brown recluse spiders when they're moving stuff around the house that they don't typically move. Boxes, or if they've had clothes stored, like if your storing you winter clothes and you're getting them out, that's when you're getting into their environment," said Lynch.

And just one can be a problem.

If you have one that means you have the environment they like, so chances of them being in larger numbers, the chances of that happening are a bit higher," said Lynch.

Lynch says 90 percent of the time people think they have a brown recluse, when in fact it's just another type of spider. But he says it's important you know what to look for.

"There is a very distinctive marking on a brown recluse. On it's back is a dark brown spot that's in the shape of a fiddle or violin, said Lynch.

And if you see one, you need to look for entry points around your home.

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