The Heat Relief Network across Maricopa County is hoping to reduce heat deaths by providing life-safe information to the most heat-vulnerable groups.
The ABC15 Investigators have been looking into the dozens of cooling centers after complaints about limited hours of operation at some centers.
The YMCA Downtown location closed at 3 p.m. and when ABC15 arrived two minutes later we were told they were closed and that we could come back the next morning at 9 a.m. During our spot check of locations, we went to another cooling center that was on the heat relief map off Central Avenue near Steel Indian School Park and the people who worked inside told us she could stay for 10 minutes, but then would have to leave.
ABC15 put together an interactive map that shows within the City of Phoenix where cooling centers are in the city compared to 911 dispatch calls for heat-related emergencies. “In terms of a particular agency that runs the Heat Relief Network overall, full-on coordination, there is not one yet,” said Reverend Katie Sexton-Wood, Executive Director for the Arizona Faith Network.
The county wrote in a news release, “City of Phoenix: $1,015,000 to open indoor, air-conditioned daytime heat relief shelters in downtown Phoenix and Sunnyslope to serve up to 140 individuals per day between May and September 2023.”
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