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Computers. fearing eviction, he calls in the experts. the disaster masters. >> he felt that the landlord was about to create an action and eviction. he felt the pressure. >> 2005. they head out to survey the scene. >> he welcomed us in and really said the magic words that fix it people love to hear, like ron and myself, which is will you please help me? please help me. >> and what they find shocks even a team of experienced professionals. >> this place was one word -- abysmal. you had to push th...

Have a home, that she cant figure out what she wants to do with comes here. and its like a tomb enshrining the hoard. it just sits here. a lot of the boxes she moved from other places in here. shell take stuff out and shell put stuff back in. >> and among the stuff, 11 cats have free rein of the house. >> theyre fuzzy pets, they leave hair, and they scratch on things and that leaves bits. it adds up quickly to equaling a big mess. if its not kept on top of constantly, it can very easily get out ...

>> theres the other bedrooms. >> when you looked at the doorway, the stop of the doorway was where you would smash your face on it. debris was three feet from the top of the doorway, which is roughly 4 1/2 feet deep. other areas it was higher. basically got stacked. couldnt see out of the windows. some of the places it was stacked to the cleaning. >> it was clean clothes. she would clean them and pack them away. so it wasnt just garbage. >> theres the top of the door. got a little bit of clearan...

It wasnt just that area. it was throughout the entire bottom floor. >> in the basement, busted water pipes create a stagnant pool of sludge. >> they had no heat. and as a result the pipes broke. >> we were wearing boots above the knees to get through that stuff because the paper and all the stuff, the clothing and things are absolutely disgusting. >> for 13 days, the team digs their way through the rotting garbage. hardened candle wax and stack of debris. in total, the crew fills five 20-foot-lo...

>> its at the far end of the house. ive separated myself off from the house with a heavy duty shower curtain and baby gate to keep the barrier between myself and the rest of the house. i keep everything in my room now, all my personal belongings because if i leave them out theyll get destroyed and destroyed very quickly. either stuff will get put on top of it and it will get crushed. her pets might get hold of it or destroy it. things will get dirty. >> the pets also contribute to something that...

>> looked like stuff youd find digging through the garbage. >> there was a note in there saying in is my stuff. do not take it. its not garbage. this is my stuff. >> with the camera still rolling the group moves into the neglected home to assess the damage. >> different places in the house had different things. when you initially walked into the house, it was a breezeway between the garage and the actual main house. that area had junk, laundry bottles, every bottle and just things like that. >> ...

Something like that in that mess. >> im 53" and it must have come up to my shoulder. a lot of times you see a path and there was no path. you didnt just walk in, you climbed in. it was an amazing amount of trash. >> because of the amount of debris, the living conditions are extremely dangerous. >> she was clearly in danger of having fire in that building. because when you live in a place like that, you have that kind of paper and you have all these extension cords underneath this stuff, one spar...

>> he felt that the landlord was about to create an action and eviction. he felt the pressure. >> 2005. they head out to survey the scene. >> he welcomed us in and really said the magic words that fix it people love to hear, like ron and myself, which is will you please help me? please help me. >> and what they find shocks even a team of experienced professionals. >> this place was one word -- abysmal. you had to push the door open with your shoulder to get it open. then you walked around sidewa...

Lunch containers, soda bottles, you name it. everything you can buy at the grocery store, you bring it home and it was all there. >> a lot of paperwork. people have a huge problem with what to do with paper. >> the crew begins carefully sifting through the debris room by room. >> we dont take the snow shovels and just haul the stuff into a trash can. we actually go through everything. were going through those papers looking for stocks and bonds and photographs and birth certificates and things l...

Dishes and, you know, cooking utensils and pots and pans. >> the nastiest had to be the kitchen because there were a bunch of plates that they were used. they werent washed. and they were stacked up and spoons and forks and pots and pans that were used and not washed. >> at one point during the survey lang loses sight of his friend rick. >> where are you at? >> we didnt see him back there at first. he was standing where the kitchen table would have been. i think the kitchen table was actually un...