A wealthy stock trader’s negligence led to a deadly fire that killed a young man who was helping him build a network of tunnels for a bunker beneath a suburban Washington, D.C., home, a lawsuit alleges. The parents of 21-year-old …
Authorities say extreme hoarding conditions and a cache of weapons, ammunition and explosives were discovered inside a southeastern Pennsylvania home after a fire there killed two residents. Pennsylvania State Police identified the victims Sunday as 64-year-old A. Katherine Schade and …
Bridgeport, Conn., Mayor Bill Finch blamed hoarding for a fire that critically injured a couple and their 2-year-old daughter. Finch said material was fuel for the apartment fire on Sunday. The Connecticut Post reported that Deputy Fire Chief Robert Petrucelli …
When firefighters arrived to fight the fire at Ken Murry’s Mountville, Pa., home late last month, they couldn’t open either of the front doors. Belongings – much of it related to his railroading passion – blocked doors. That was the …
Fire has destroyed a New Jersey home that was so chock full of surplus military equipment, dressers, refrigerators and other material that a fire official called it “one of the most extreme examples of hoarding.” Avenel Assistant Fire Chief Frank …