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Municipalities are struggling to handle hoarder houses, or "gomi yashiki" (literally, "garbage house"), across Japan that have grown into a social headache attributed to odor and high fire risk.

There was an outside fire with minor smoke and water damage to an unoccupied hoarder house in Sparks on Friday evening, according to the Sparks Fire Department. The incident happened about 5:30 p.m.