Despite the forecasts of cold nightly temperatures and potential rain early next week, county-run winter shelters in Orange and Los Angeles counties are now closed until next winter.
But the cold weather shelter set up this year in Fullerton is bare bones and has not been physically easy to access. People wanting a cot and a warm meal for the night had to be at one of two bus stops in Fullerton at one of two evening pick-up times. At 7 a.m. the next morning, they were dropped off again at those same spots.
Earlier this month, during a recent break in the rain, Wright checked the vitals of a 44-year-old woman named Amanda using a mobile EKG monitor . She and a small group were spread out next to a drainage ditch off of Beach Boulevard in Garden Grove. "It's so cold," she said, as she sat in her tent and looked around at her sparse belongings."These are all just jackets, like we have no blankets."
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