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Collyer Mansion: Staten Island
Members of Ladder Company 78 rescued one man from four feet of clutter while Ladder Company 77 was able to remove another from the second floor over a ladder. On 20 September two Staten Island men were...
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Collyer Mansion: Los Angeles Fatal
Los Angeles’ USAR team gets called out to fatal house fire in order to stabilize structure. Shortly before 1700 hours on 17 December, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a house fire in the...
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Collyer Mansion: Buffalo
Cluttered conditions slowed the progress of Buffalo firefighters at this afternoon fire. Buffalo firefighters were dispatched to a house fire on Minton Street Monday afternoon. An additional report of...
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A VSP-ish Result in Pennsylvania
Code enforcement draws the line at this Collyer Mansion fire. A 66-year old Lansdowne man died in a house fire Wednesday where his illness of hoarding culminated in a condemned building ruling, barring...
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Lesson in Awareness:Two Dead in Presumed Vacant CT House Fire
Despite tin foil hats and other oddities, the house they occupied was considered vacant. Firefighters in Waterbury, Connecticut responded to a house fire with reported explosion on 28 July. What makes...
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Take a Window, Leave a Door.Rescue at Ohio Hoarding Fire
Dayton firefighters’ resourcefulness aids rescue of elderly woman. Dayton firefighters responded to a house fire last week on Alaska Street and arrived to find neighbors telling them that a woman was...
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Allentown Collyer Mansion Job:Excavator Special-Called to Hoarder Fire
Rescues and excavator, both at Allentown hoarder fire. In Allentown, Pennsylvania firefighters responded to a house fire in the 600 block of Allen Street. Neighbors had rescued three people from the...
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“Absolutely Not!” Rebuffing Refusing to Search for Occupants in Collyer...
Gabe Angemi allows us to share why hoarding shouldn't be an excuse to not act. A shared post, with permission, from Gabe Angemi of CMD-FD and Camden's Rescue 1..cleaned up a little. BC While the list...
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Collyer Mansion Rescue: Pasadena, MDRescue of Handicapped Occupant and...
November rescue of a handicapped woman from rapidly progressing fire conditions. On 27 November, fire companies in Pasadena, Maryland and surrounding areas repsonded to a reported house fire with an...
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Collyer Mansion: Washington, D.C.
Fire in Northwest reveals hoarding conditions Companies downtown responded to the 300 block of Weber Street, Northwest, to find fire showing from the first floor of a two-story middle-of-the-row...
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