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HOARDING BLAMED FOR TEEN'S DEATH IN FIRE

(Oxford, OH)--An area high school senior has been killed in a house fire just weeks before he would have graduated.  The fire occurred at a house just off of U.S. 27 near Oxford.  The victim has now been identified as 18-year-old Ryan Starrett, who was a senior at Talawanda.  Investigators say the house was a hoarding situation, and that kept firefighters from getting to the victim.  "We weren't able to make entry because of the condition of the house," said John Detherage with the Oxford Fire Department.  The cause of the fire remains under investigation.