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Article: PACK RAT PATROLMAN HAS WARM HEART.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- September 19, 2002
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Byline: DENNIS McCARTHY
``It's OK to be a slob, just not a fire hazard slob.''
- Dennis Bogard, Los Angeles city fire inspector
It's not a rich vs. poor thing, Dennis Bogard says. Not an uptown or downtown story. Age doesn't matter. Neither does gender.
Compulsive ``pack rats'' - the kind who cram their homes with trash they just can't bear to part with, even empty old cereal boxes and junk mail.
There's a pack rat with three vacant, junk-filled houses over on upscale Greenbush Avenue in Sherman Oaks, where you can't touch a home these days for under a half-million bucks.
One lives on Columbus Avenue in the heart of ...