California residents sound alarm over port backlog as shipping containers overflow into neighborhoods

Shipping delays have been mounting and cargo has been piling up at California ports. Tens of thousands of containers are stuck at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in California, which move more than a quarter of all American imports, according to The Wall Street Journal, which noted last month that dozens of ships are lined up to dock with waiting times stretching to three weeks.

Due to the overflow at ports, containers are now finding their way to residential streets.

Valerie Contreras, a board member of the Wilmington, California, Neighborhood Council, told "Fox & Friends First" Thursday that the dangerous situation can’t continue.

"The shipping industry is spilling over into our community and we cannot sustain it any longer," Contreras said.

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"We have had these truckers going through our community. Our residential streets are backed up and we cannot handle the overflow of what's happening at the port. And it's quite dangerous."

One car was photographed being crushed by a container in the harbor area of Los Angeles.

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