Hoarding becomes BIG problem for firefighters at this house fire in Allentown, PA

Just after 14:30 hours, box 2265 was transmitted for a house fire at 627 Allen Street, sending engines 4, 9, 6, 13, Truck 2 and Battalion 2 (Lanshe). On arri...

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Comment by Larry Taggart on August 31, 2011 at 6:30pm
The best thing you can do is make sure no one is home then protect the exposures and let it burn. To risk members in one of those places is not a good idea. I fought fire in  three differnt types of hoarders, garbage, can goods and paper. The first two we foyght them the last we let go as the added weight of water in the paper would have put the house in the basement and on top of us.
Comment by Donald R. Poulin Jr. on August 31, 2011 at 1:17am
Wow Bill, goes to show u how crazy its gotten with people who cant stop. The fellow brothers/sisters who still do this job everyday have enough with some of the fires they deal with without adding to it. Grt video thx

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