cooling center
(US) An artificially cooled emergency shelter that operates during dangerously hot weather to provide care and relief for people affected by the high temperature.
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(US) An artificially cooled emergency shelter that operates during dangerously hot weather to provide care and relief for people affected by the high temperature.
[T]he availability of shelter from the heat at a city-sponsored "cooling center" made sense. With temperatures soaring into the 100s it was a move to prevent the situations that led to multiple heat deaths in 1980. [T]he cooling center, …
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