NORWALK, Connecticut -- Connecticut fire officials say a woman has died after a fire broke out in a Norwalk home with extreme hoarding conditions.
Crews responded to the house just after 7 a.m. Sunday and found fire coming out of a second-floor bedroom window. Neighbors said there was a woman in the house.
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Firefighters say they had a difficult time moving through the house because the rooms, hallways and stairs were cluttered, nearly to the ceiling in some places.
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Officials said firefighters had to crawl on top of mounds of belongings to locate the woman and put out the fire.
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The woman was taken to Norwalk Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Her identity was not immediately released. Fire officials said there was no one else in the home.