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Dominic Kovacs now lives in a hotel but has to bus back to his apartment to ckeck on the portable heater and pick up mail , hopes the heat will be back on soon - NO Heat - Residents of a Maryland ST. apartment building have gone without heat since Christmas , they like where they live but would like to be getting more info from the owners of the apartment block , the block's furnace has broken down during Christmas and many of the residents are returning to feed their pets and checking on their apartments portable heaters .story by Jessica Bothelho- Urbanski JAN. 2 2014 / KEN GIGLIOTTI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS