Real Life Hoarder Story Ends In Tragedy...
13 years 9 months ago #1
by riada
Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care.
Incertainty that once gave scope to dream
Of laughing enterprise and glory untold,
Is now a blackness that no stars redeem.
al Life Hoarder Story Ends In Tragedy... was created by riada
NEW BRUNSWICK — Fire tearing through a house packed waist-deep and higher with accumulated trash and clutter killed an older man here Saturday, but by nightfall authorities were unsure of his name.
"We are trying to locate the next of kin, so we can identify him,''' said New Brunswick Fire Department Director Robert Rawls.
Deputy Fire Chief Tom Dobkowski said, "He was like "Hoarders.'‚''
Dobkowski said firefighters went to the building at the corner of Commercial Avenue and Handy Street at about 6 a.m., and immediately, "access was delayed by the stuff in there. It made it real difficult to make entry.''
The deputy chief said firefighters spent more than three hours to arrest the two-alarm blaze.
And when they reached the rear of the three-level structure, firefighters found the body of the man who appeared to be trying to escape.
"He was found by the rear door trying to get out of the building,'' Dobkowski said.
At the scene at mid-morning, firefighters rolled up hoses and milled about. Police crime investigators were on hand. A ditch digger dug a trench on one side of the wood-frame house.
The accumulated refuse could be seen against the structure's windows.
Neighbors reported knowing little about the resident of 168 Commercial Ave., though they said he seemed to have lived there for a number of years.
Pet dogs were nowhere around, the neighbors said.
"We are trying to locate the next of kin, so we can identify him,''' said New Brunswick Fire Department Director Robert Rawls.
Deputy Fire Chief Tom Dobkowski said, "He was like "Hoarders.'‚''
Dobkowski said firefighters went to the building at the corner of Commercial Avenue and Handy Street at about 6 a.m., and immediately, "access was delayed by the stuff in there. It made it real difficult to make entry.''
The deputy chief said firefighters spent more than three hours to arrest the two-alarm blaze.
And when they reached the rear of the three-level structure, firefighters found the body of the man who appeared to be trying to escape.
"He was found by the rear door trying to get out of the building,'' Dobkowski said.
At the scene at mid-morning, firefighters rolled up hoses and milled about. Police crime investigators were on hand. A ditch digger dug a trench on one side of the wood-frame house.
The accumulated refuse could be seen against the structure's windows.
Neighbors reported knowing little about the resident of 168 Commercial Ave., though they said he seemed to have lived there for a number of years.
Pet dogs were nowhere around, the neighbors said.
Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care.
Incertainty that once gave scope to dream
Of laughing enterprise and glory untold,
Is now a blackness that no stars redeem.
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