Magalia couple conflicted about rebuilding as squatters surround abandoned properties

One Magalia couple working to rebuild shares their frustration with being surrounded by squatters, setting up camp at abandoned properties.

New at 5 -- the community of magalia has a post - camp fire problem: squatters, setting up camp at abandoned properties.

Action news now reporter dani masten shows us why not much is being done about it.

People here in magalia are feeling very frustrated about the people who are camping out on their properties pkg script sot/susan copeland/ rebuilding in magalia we surrounded by squatters.

By people that are not the property owners, they are spreading out onto neighboring properties.

I feel really bad for the people who have been displaced, but the problem that we are having is that they are disrespecting our neighborhoods?

Susan and her husband michael have been trying to rebuild their home in magalia after already losing it once in the camp fire but -- they're feeling conflicted about rebuilding due to this (match video) -- transients, camping in their neighborhood.

Sot/susan copeland/ rebuilding in magalia it when we are taking every penny we own to try and rebuild our home and then have this kind of environment around us.

We thought many times about if we want to rebuild up here because of that?

Her husband is concerned about the safety of their possessions.

Sot/michael copeland/ rebuilding in magalia my biggest frustrations right now are i can property and feel safe of having anything when i come back and it just gets worse on a daily basis and it is very hard to live around.

Dani stand up i brought susan and michaels concerns to code enforcement manager chris jellison..

And he tells me that there is not a lot the county can do right now.

Sot/chris jellison we have but here is the problem..

The problem is that the concerns that we address that the problems keep recurring as far as the parcel and the people that are there but because of chapter 53, they can be on their parcel dry camping until the end of december?

Jellison the board of supervivors passed that ordinance after the 2018 campfire.

*one more sentence here explaining a tiny bit more about what "chapter 53 is*) dani ll susan says that she also sent a letter to butte county supervisor doug teeter regarding some of her concerns but is still waiting to hear back.

In magalia i masten, action news now coverage you can count on # yesterday the butte county board of supervisors voted to extend that ordianance -- chapter 53 -- until the end of december 2021.