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Fire Kills 1, Badly Burns Another In Extreme Hoarding Intervention Gone Awry
GREENWICH, Conn. (CBSNewYork) — An extreme hoarding situation ended in extreme sadness on Tuesday. It may have been a final act of defiance that killed a man and seriously injured his sick mother.
The run-down home has been an eyesore for years, attracting complaints from neighbors and the city of Greenwich. Now, the woman who owns it is badly burned and her 42-year-old son is dead, CBS 2’s Lou Young reported.
The fire started inside a home jammed with stacks of personal possessions — a hoarder’s den turned death trap.
“Smoke pouring out of the house and we said there’s someone still inside, and about five or six minutes later they took the second person out in an ambulance over there,” neighbor Richard Meehan said.
“The fire department has determined it was intentionally set,” Greenwich Police Lt. Craig Gray said.
it figgers
October 4th, 2012
prolly had a few Honus Wagners in there