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For the second time in a week, Portland firefighters were stymied by home clutter, the Fire Bureau announced today. An unnamed man in his 50s died during an attempted rescue this morning in Northeast Portland after "some of [his] home's excessive contents fell on him," the bureau announcement says.
The death prompted the bureau to ask people to encourage compulsive hoarders they may know to seek mental health treatment.
The bureau's account follows:
WWeek 2015