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Uploaded: Monday, January 28, 2013, 12:15 PM
Clutter fuels two-alarm house fire
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by Daniel DeBolt
Mountain View Voice Staff
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 | One person suffered minor injuries in a two-alarm fire in northeastern Mountain View reported at 9:25 a.m. Monday morning, fire officials said. Mountain View and Palo Alto firefighters were still busy removing smoldering debris from the home at around 11 a.m.
The fire was reported at 9:25 a.m. and was extinguished at about 10:45 a.m.
Fire department spokesperson Jaime Garrett said the injured woman who lived in the house was treated on the scene. Flames burned throughout the home on the 1600 block of Spring Street and flames even damaged power lines behind the house, Garrett said.
Residents displaced by the fire will be housed by the Red Cross, Garrett said.
"This is why we encourage people to go through spring cleaning a few times a year," Garrett said, as firefighters removed smoldering piles of clothing and fabric from the garage. "There is a high fuel load in this house. Once stuff like that starts burning, it just smolders. It got up in the attic and throughout the home."
Garrett also noted the bars on the windows could have prevented someone from escaping from the fire.
"If people put bars on their windows, (they need) to make sure they can be opened from the inside so they can be used as an emergency exit," Garrett said.
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Posted by Honey b00b00, a resident of the Martens-Carmelita neighborhood, on Jan 28, 2013 at 2:27 pm Eeesh!!! Hoarding gone bad! Lucky for them, nobody died.
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Posted by Martin Omander, a resident of the Rex Manor neighborhood, on Jan 28, 2013 at 3:24 pm Wow, that's a lot of stuff in the garage. I'm happy to hear no-one was killed or seriously injured. Yet another reason to clean out my garage.
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Posted by Otto Maddox, a resident of the Monta Loma neighborhood, on Jan 29, 2013 at 10:06 am I am always amazed at the amount of JUNK people will pile up in a garage.
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Posted by Carolyn Tangi, a resident of the North Whisman neighborhood, on Jan 29, 2013 at 10:56 am What appears as junk to you, could be things these folks collected to recycle for income. Don't judge what they had in their garage.
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Posted by Chick-fil-haay!!!, a resident of the St. Francis Acres neighborhood, on Jan 29, 2013 at 12:17 pm @ Carolyn Tangi. They should have gone to the recycling center a little more often, because now, it's definitely nothing but junk. Burnt junk to be exact.
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Posted by Sparty, a resident of the Cuesta Park neighborhood, on Jan 29, 2013 at 2:18 pm "What appears as junk to you, could be things these folks collected to recycle for income."
Piling it up for "income" at some "later" time is about as effective as simply looking at college brochures to enroll "one day" and boost your income.
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Posted by Sean, a resident of the Sylvan Park neighborhood, on Jan 31, 2013 at 6:41 pm I bet it all that Carolyn has more junk then that garage.
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