Cable network A&E's series "Hoarders" will have a Springfield twist when its new episode airs Monday night.
The program features cases of compulsive hoarders looking to clean out the junk in their homes, and the Springfield franchisee of 1-800-GOT-JUNK helped with the heavy lifting in the latest episode.
Tonight's episode focuses on a Tulsa, Okla., woman named Gail, who faced having her home condemned because of its extremely cluttered state.
Clay McGee, the junk-hauling company's Springfield franchisee, said his office was called in because A&E has an exclusive agreement with 1-800-GOT-JUNK on the corporate level, and the Springfield office is the closest to Tulsa.
McGee said he and six employees spent a weekend in Tulsa last month, hauling away about 15 truckloads of garbage, plus four to five truckloads of recyclables and two loads of items to be donated.
While the A&E program features extreme cases of hoarding, McGee said the problem is not uncommon for his company to deal with.
"At least once a month we'll come across someone referred to us as a hoarder," he said, noting that many of those people use his company out of necessity. "They'll have a disease or illness that has come from living in such dirt, or the city has threatened them in one way or another."
The Springfield office normally handles southwest Missouri - from Joplin to Marshfield and from Bolivar to Branson - and McGee noted that his crew could possibly be called to work on one more "Hoarders" episode this season, though details have not been finalized.
The Tulsa episode airs Monday night at 9 p.m. Central on A&E.[[In-content Ad]]
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