Thursday, August 31, 2006

When I See an Article Like This . . .

. . . I become very afraid.

Clutter blamed in fatal Houston home fire: "HFD says piles of paper helped the blaze quickly spread, hindering a woman's rescue

By MIKE GLENN
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

Family members had regularly offered to help make order out of the chaos of books, magazines and papers that filled Marilyn Berzeny's modest northwest Houston home.

But the 64-year-old woman always refused any assistance, they said. Relatives now believe that resistance may have cost the woman her life early Wednesday when a fast-moving fire burned through the clutter she refused to move."

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