Mayor Bowser activated the District’s “Heat Emergency Plan,” which extends the operating hours at 11 public pools and opens cooling centers for residents to come inside and seek relief.
and opens cooling centers across the city for residents to seek relief. Prince William County opened up its libraries and a Manassas recreation center as cooling resources also.
“For those who don’t have working air conditioning or access to air conditioning, they need to get someplace cold and someplace that does have air conditioning, [because] once it gets this warm, it’s no longer an inconvenience. It’s a danger,” said Matthew Levy, an associate professor of emergency medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
“We want to make sure, as we do throughout our weather-related emergencies, it’s about neighbors looking out for neighbors,” said Christopher Rodriguez, the director of D.C.’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency. D.C. Department of Human Services officials said the city will expand the number of beds in homeless shelters to accommodate anyone seeking a cool place to sleep.
“We maximize every available bed within our shelters and work to obtain extra beds as we do in all heat emergencies,” spokesman Kevin Valentine Jr. said in an emailed statement Thursday. Outreach workers will be doing wellness checks and providing water to residents experiencing homelessness on Saturday and Sunday, he said.D.C. residents should call the shelter hotline if they or anyone they know needs emergency shelter, Valentine said. The number is 202-399-7093.
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