A fire at the Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park in Sweetwater has left remaining residents fearful for their safety as the community continues to empty ahead of demolition.

Friday marks the first deadline for Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park residents to move out and receive the highest incentive package.

Residents of the Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park are packing up as they prepare to face eviction in the new year.

As residents leave the Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park facing impending evictions, Local 10 News has learned that real estate agents were selling homes there, even though new owners would not be able to stay.

A little more than a month after letters ordering them to move out, sparking protests, residents of the sprawling Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park in Sweetwater are taking their fight against what they call “illegal and unconscionable acts” to court.

A 61-year-old resident of the Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park bonded out of jail and checked herself into a hospital following a rough arrest that sparked a protest outside of Sweetwater City Hall.

Police in Sweetwater arrested a resident of the Lil Abner Mobile Home Park on Wednesday.

As construction on a new, bigger and bolder affordable housing apartment building continues to take shape on the edge of the Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park in Sweetwater, residents caught in the middle of a looming change continue to worry after being blindsided by a letter warning them that the property has been sold and they have six months to move.