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Fair to help those displaced in Augusta fire

A Housing and Resource Fair is being held on Monday.

Posted December 7, 2014

Updated December 8, 2014

The Associated Press

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Dereck Oltz holds a cat that he found Saturday, a day after a fire destroyed apartment building where he lived at 36 Northern Ave. in Augusta. Oltz said the cat belongs to a neighbor in the building and that he had found it hiding in woods near the building’s charred remains. He had taken his mother, Heather Oltz, back see the building where she had lived until it burned down on Friday morning. Staff photo by Joe Phelan

AUGUSTA — The more than two dozen people displaced by a fire in Augusta are getting help to find new housing.

A Housing and Resource Fair is being held on Monday to help those in impacted by the Friday-morning fire that destroyed a four-story apartment building. Twenty-seven people were displaced.

The event at the Gilbert Elementary School in Augusta will run from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Landlords and property management companies will be there to help those who were impacted by the fire find vacant apartments in the area.

Other groups, including the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Family Independence and the City of Augusta Health and Welfare, will be on hand at the event.

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