FORKS — Rose Greene and her 9-year-old daughter have been living in a Forks motel room since their apartment was ravaged by fire last week.
Like seven other families who lost their units and belongings in the Feb. 6 nighttime blaze, 26-year-old Greene and her daughter, Monica, may have to wait another week to find permanent housing.
That’s a tough feat when Forks has only two other Section 8 apartment complexes to house the people who have been displaced — all are single mothers and all qualify for low-income housing.
“We’re going to have to get real creative,” said Colleen Coole, an American Red Cross disaster volunteer dispatched from Mill Creek to Forks to help the women relocate.
Forks police are still investigating what caused the blaze, which started in the top floor of the two-story, eight-unit Building B at Peninsula Apartments, 210 Fir Ave.
Almost nothing was salvaged from the fire, which began about 7:45 p.m. that Wednesday.
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