L.A. suffered deadly heat, yet chairs sat empty at its cooling centers

on the street, many chairs ended up sitting empty at the handful of city cooling centers set up to spare Angelenos from the blistering heat.

When volunteers with the homeless outreach and advocacy group Ktown for All hit the streets to hand out frozen water bottles and tell unhoused people about a cooling center at Lafayette Park, many people asked them, “Are you going to take me there?” organizer Sherin Varghese said. The ongoing pandemic may have also dragged down turnout. Many cooling centers across the city also drew paltry numbers earlier this summer: L.A.’s Emergency Management Department said that 2020 attendance has significantly dropped compared with 2017 and 2018. When wildfires raged this month, Los Angeles opened up four “smoke relief centers” that could collectively hold up to 128 people. Only 11 people used them.

“I can’t stress enough the amount of visible suffering that everyone saw that weekend,” said Ktown for All member Nicolas Emmons, who recounted calling an ambulance for a man in visible pain, clutching a walker under a freeway.

Why don’t you guys fix your budget?

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L.A. - Still standing record high temps - Month of September

How many 'cooling centers' did LA have 50 or 100 years ago? Gee, maybe people know that it is summer and LA can get hot. Before air conditioning people knew how to adapt to hot weather. Ever seen any of those sleeping porches in pre-WW2 houses?

People are scared of going inside businesses.

Because no one knew about them

Probably a better use of funds to counter the Electricity price hikes so people can afford to run their ACs and fix the Power supply issues as well

good

People like to be cool, but unless they're in serious distress, they have better things to do than sit in a chair all day.

Showing films sounds appealing.

Maybe the cooling centers should take reservations and then close down if they don't have people show up

I didn’t know this even existed lol

Maybe because it wasn’t worth it to venture out in the dangerous heat to go to one?

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