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>> drive, ron and melissa alford 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 mow. >> and what at the 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. and enthis you walked around sideways like this to slip in. just get in. and from there, there was just virtually everything, food, clothing, stuff everywhere. >> the debris in this case was a lot of tra...

Steam coming out from the methane gas from all the organic material. >> this stuff was rotting. creating heat. >> what i saw would make anybody want to vomit. you didn't know if you were looking at a dead possum or if you were looking at just old food. i mean, it was just unrecognizable. >> the alfords realized that years of dropping food onto the floor had actually created a new higher floor. >> they eat like this and they watch the tv and when they're done they throw this one here and that one that way, and it stacks up. >> it's so dense, so packed from, layered, layered, then you walk on it...

Home. >> it's at the far end of the house. i've 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 they'll get destroyed and they will get 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 isn't caught on camera. a smothering, noxious odor permeates most of the hom...

Sick cats. there was a large barn that also had cages and cages of cats. off of that barn were some pens with cats in them. you know, there was a trailer with cats. then come around the other side of the house, there's other pens with cats. >> deputy manager of cruelty investigations is and senior field responder rowdy shaw join them on the rescue. >> anyone that looks at a situation like that would almost immediately wonder how somebody could care for that many animals. your immediate thought was, oh, my gosh, there are a lot of animals here. >> they were in every kind of device that you coul...

Result, the pipes broke. we were wearing boots above the knees to get through that stuff because the clothing and things there was absolutely disgusting. >> for 13 days the team digs their bay through the rotting garbage, hardened candle wax and stacks of debris. they fill five, 20 foot long dumpsters. >> i didn't think it was ever going to get done. we recould haved that house. the place got cleaned out completely. they put it on the market. we got there just in time. hoarding is a serious disorder that can leave many feeling helpless and overwhelmed. but as we've seen, whether the issue is...