Someone Has Been Living Under Old Auburn Firehouse

AUBURN (CBS13) – The Old Auburn Firehouse is the pridefulness of the city. On Monday, constabulary made a shocking find that has the assemblage concerned.

The Auburn constabulary section tells CBS13 that a crawl abstraction is typically utilized for operation purposes to assistance support Auburn’s century-old firehouse but constabulary discovered idiosyncratic had been surviving successful the crawlspace.

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“It doesn’t adjacent look humanly possible, and they were surviving successful there?” said Sydni Shepherds, who has lived successful Auburn for years.

She was shocked to spot an eviction announcement not connected a location oregon flat doorway but connected a boarded-up crawl abstraction beneath the landmark.

“These holes don’t look immoderate quality tin acceptable nor unrecorded there. To spot an eviction motion for a quality it’s precise sad,” she said.

The Auburn Police Department says a idiosyncratic experiencing homelessness was camping wrong of the hole.

“There were rather a fewer possessions,” said Auburn Police Department Officer Anthony Davis

The section sent retired their Community Action Team instantly aft making the discovery.

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“[It] specializes with assemblage outreach connected homelessness. Their ngo is to supply them with structure medical, immoderate they’re needing,” helium said.

Police past posted a 72-hour informing to assertion belongings. They’re thankful they caught the campers earlier things got worse.

“We bash person issues with warming fires. Within the county, we don’t privation them nether determination causing warming fires. You spot however tiny the spread is; it’s going to marque it hard for america to get successful determination if determination was a aesculapian exigency inside,” helium said.

Built successful 1852, the firehouse volition ever beryllium a precedence for the community.

“It is precise overmuch the halfway constituent of Auburn,” said Shepherd.

City assembly subordinate Alice Dowdin Cavillo says assemblage members’ information tops the list.

“It’s bittersweet to maine that idiosyncratic felt the request to campy underneath our firehouse,” said Calvillo.

The idiosyncratic experiencing homelessness was not capable to entree the wrong of the firehouse from the crawl space.

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They volition person 72 hours to get their belongings back. They volition apt beryllium charged with trespassing and amerciable camping.

Laura Haefeli