McDonald's operator inside Dinuba Walmart issues statement regarding rodents

DINUBA, Calif. (KFSN) -- The McDonald's located successful a Dinuba Walmart released a connection regarding the rats recovered wrong the restaurant.

An Action News Insider shared a video from the fast-food concatenation connected El Monte Way and Alta Avenue showing rodents crawling crossed the restaurant, which disquieted Walmart customers.

Tulare County's Environmental Health Division said it received complaints astir rats connected March 6 and the McDonald's closed immediately.

The McDonald's proprietor and operator, Javier Torres, issued a connection connected Tuesday, saying, "We person been moving intimately with the Tulare County Health Department and third-party professionals. Based connected their guidance, we conducted a broad heavy cleaning of each nutrient preparation, service, and retention areas, and different preventative treatments to guarantee the edifice met cleanliness and nutrient information standards.

It went connected to say, "This is an ongoing, building-level issue, arsenic implicit the past respective months, different tenants and ourselves person experienced occasional pest enactment wrong shared areas of the building. Consistent with McDonald's operating protocols, immoderate concerns person been promptly reported by our edifice squad to gathering absorption truthful they could beryllium addressed."

The connection concluded, saying, "Based connected the astir caller follow-up with the Tulare County Health Department, the remaining country nether reappraisal is simply a shared abstraction wrong the building. To guarantee we are delivering connected our committedness to a harmless situation for our unit and our guests, we volition reopen erstwhile it is determined harmless to bash so."