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Displaced by fire, low-income tenants from Old Orchard Beach need homes

They can't return to their apartments for at least a month and funding for their hotel rooms is running out.

Posted February 7, 2015

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Richard Sweeney, who was displaced by the Jan. 29 fire at Centennial Place in Old Orchard Beach, walks through the lobby at the Hampton Inn in Saco with Easy Boy on Thursday. Some tenants worry that new short-term housing won’t accept pets. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer

SACO — Rosie, a pudgy tiger-striped cat of ample girth, hid behind the toilet at the Hampton Inn in Saco, nervous in the unfamiliar surroundings.

Beverly Russell, her owner, is anxious, too, with no idea where she will be living after this weekend.

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The Centennial Place apartments in Old Orchard Beach, seen Thursday, won't be ready for tenants to return for at least a month. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer

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