The city's most vulnerable populations again face the greatest risk as San Antonio awaits more hot days over 100 degrees.
The heat disproportionally impacts low- or no-income residents, who may be unable to avoid being outside due to housing or transportation challenges and experience more underlying health conditions.
The window units in her home can cool only one room, so their days are isolated in those rooms, she said. “You go into the restroom and it’s just like a sauna. You’re sweating.” Tents dot an encampment of people experiencing homelessness Saturday off Fredericksburg Road on the North Side.For many living outside in the heat, “you become used to it,” Barrera said.“It’s no different than COVID,” said Nikisha Baker, executive director of SAMMinistries. “People were passing away largely because of underlying health conditions that exacerbated their COVID illness.
Budgie Gonzales, a 9-year-old Jack Russell terrier living with his owner, Michael, in a drainage culvert in the South Side on Saturday, sits in the shade.Budgie Gonzales, Michael’s 9-year-old Jack Russell terrier, took a bit more coaxing to venture out, with his naked feet, onto the hot concrete.
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