I posted a story a few weeks back about a woman in Connecticut, who lost her life in a fire because the firemen couldn’t get to her because of the “clutter”.
That almost happened to a woman on Hoarders...she was sick and had tied herself to an adult potty to go to sleep, then fell halfway off and had gotten wedged in between a bunch of garbage, too weak to get up. Luckily she had one of those alarm things so she used it and the paramedics barely got to her in time. Any longer, she would have died there. Apparently they think some bugs had bitten her and caused an infection, plus she had diabetes and had ulcers the size of golfballs on her feet. Sad.