Residents at the KC Apartment complex move a mattress during heavy snowfall on Friday afternoon before the 5 p.m. deadline from the city of Casper to vacate the building. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
Eviction notices were taped to windows and doors at the KC Apartments after the City of Casper shut the complex down due to numerous violations early Tuesday morning. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
Building tenant Julie Mabbitt holds the notice she and other tenants received early Tuesday morning at the KC Apartments in Casper. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
Tenant Julie Mabbitt sits on the edge of her bed in her apartment at the KC Apartments on Tuesday morning in Casper. Mabbitt has lived in the building for 4-years and is concerned about finding a new place to live in such short notice. Tenants have just 10-days to vacate the building. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
The KC Apartment complex has been a Casper fixture since 1917. The city of Casper has shut down the building after finding extensive fire and structural hazards throughout the complex. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
Julie Mabbitt stands outside the KC Apartments on Tuesday morning in downtown Casper. Mabbitt, along with every other tenant in the building, received a 10-day eviction notice from the city of Casper early Tuesday morning. The action follows an inspection that turned up serious fire hazards throughout the building. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
Ron Bearela stands in the alley between the two buildings that make up the KC Apartment complex near downtown Casper on Tuesday morning. Bearela, who has lived in the building for 10-years, received his eviction notice along with the rest of the tenants early Tuesday. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
Pastor Butch Capshaw sits inside the Good News Church on the northwest corner of Beech and A streets on Thursday afternoon in Casper. Capshaw is welcoming residents from the KC Apartments to stay at the church until the city can find places for them to live. (Kerry Huller/Star-Tribune)
Clint Conner, left, a Casper Public Utilities employee, helps KC Apartment complex resident Tobias Marcelin, right, move items from his apartment on Friday afternoon. City of Casper employees and members of the Casper Fire Department helped residents move furniture by the 5 p.m. deadline to vacate the building. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
Cliff Davies of Community Action Partnership of Natrona County goes door-to-door checking on residents at the KC Apartment complex on Friday afternoon to make sure they have a place to go after the city of Casper shuts down the building at 5 p.m. (Kerry Huller/Star-Tribune)
Tenants move their belongings from the KC Apartments on Oct. 9 after the building was closed by the city of Casper for safety violations. The owner of the apartments has asked the city to lift a 'dangerous building' label to allow him to obtain financing to renovate the complex. (Kerry Huller/Star-Tribune file)
Tenant Julie Mabbitt sits on the edge of her bed in her apartment at the KC Apartments on Tuesday morning in Casper. Mabbitt has lived in the building for four years and is concerned about finding a new place to live on such short notice. Tenants have just 10 days to vacate the building. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
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