Emerson’s Cleared. Now What?
The City’s after-action report from the closing of a camp on Emerson Avenue could guide future closures on City-owned right of ways On June 23 the Bend Police Department, in coordination with social services agencies, closed and cleared Emerson Avenue, where 40 to 50 unhoused people were living on City right of ways, using a City policy uniquely tailored for Emerson that could guide how unhoused encampments are swept in the future. At the Bend City Council meeting approving the policy on June 2, Councilor Anthony Broadman called it a “dress rehearsal” for problems in the community, as the number of unhoused people continues to increase yearly.
Hundreds Believed Dead in US, Canada Heat Wave
July 02, 2021
Salem Fire Department paramedics and employees of Falck Northwest ambulances respond to a heat exposure call during a heat wave, June 26, 2021, in Salem, Ore.
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Many of the dead were found alone, in homes without air conditioning or fans. Some were elderly one as old as 97. The body of an immigrant farm laborer was found in an Oregon nursery.
As forecasters warned of a record-breaking heat wave in the Pacific Northwest and western Canada last weekend, officials set up cooling centers, distributed water to the homeless and took other steps. Still, hundreds of people are believed to have died from Friday to Tuesday.
Hundreds of people die across Pacific Northwest and Canada with at least 79 dead in Oregon alone after catastrophic heatwave during which temperatures hit 115F
Hundreds of people are feared to have died during record-breaking temperatures in the Pacific Northwest and western Canada
Officials set up cooling centers, distributed water to the homeless and took other steps as mercury climbed as high as 115F in Seattle and Portland
The death toll in the state of Oregon reached 79 while in Canada, British Columbia there were reports of at least 486 sudden and unexpected deaths
In Oregon s Multnomah County, the oldest person to die was 97 and the youngest 44
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