Help with Flys in fireplace!

Julie Copley
by Julie Copley
I usually covered up my fireplace due to the lose of heat im having trouble with blow flies beause i found a dead squirrel who knows how long it was there so we have been using fire logs thinking that we could burn the flies out and we swept and vaccumed but they came back in a day now we have another fire going and still killing flies our protector for our chimney blew off its been raining so no safe way of fixing it And im a renter please help
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