Augusta family find themselves suddenly homeless

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By Betty Adams badams@centralmaine.com Staff Writer

AUGUSTA -- Andrea Jellison and her husband drove into their driveway early Tuesday afternoon with the backseat of the car full of a month's worth of groceries.

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UNSAFE CONDITIONS: Augusta code enforcement officer Rob Overton tapes a notice on the deck at 11 State Street that wooden stairs and deck entrance to three apartments in the building is unsafe. Tenants in the units were ordered to relocate.

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UNSAFE CONDITIONS: Andrea Jellison reacts to being told that her apartment at 11 State Street in Augusta had been condemned as unsafe. Jellison, her husband and child were told by city officials that the wooden stairs and deck entrance to the building is unsafe and were ordered to relocate.

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Augusta police and a city code enforcement officer met the couple and told them that their apartment and two others in the four-story building at 11 State St. had been deemed unfit to live in, so they could not stay there.

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