{"id":68318,"date":"2015-12-01T08:02:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T16:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=68318"},"modified":"2015-12-02T13:13:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T21:13:16","slug":"cold-weather-alert-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/12\/01\/cold-weather-alert-issued\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold weather alert issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/cold-weather-advisory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-27804\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/cold-weather-advisory-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"cold weather advisory\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/cold-weather-advisory-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/cold-weather-advisory.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>LANCASTER &#8212; With frigid temperatures in the forecast, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has issued a cold weather alert, urging local residents to take precautions against the dipping temperatures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The alert will be in effect through Thursday in the Antelope Valley.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Children, the elderly and people with disabilities or special medical needs are especially vulnerable during such cold snaps,&#8221; said Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser, the county&#8217;s interim health officer. &#8220;Extra precaution should be taken to ensure they don&#8217;t get too cold when they are outside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also want to remind people not to use stoves, barbecues or ovens to heat their homes due to the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seniors and other people in need of a place to keep warm can visit a winter shelter. A list of locations is available online through the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lahsa.org\/winter_shelter_program\" target=\"_blank\">www.lahsa.org\/winter_shelter_program<\/a>, or by calling the 211 information line.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials are urging residents to protect themselves and others from the cold by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dressing in layers of warm clothing.<\/li>\n<li>Wearing a hat, scarves, gloves and socks to protect extremities.<\/li>\n<li>Offering help to neighbors without adequate heat.<\/li>\n<li>Checking on senior citizens or others who are ill.<\/li>\n<li>Bringing pets inside overnight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER &#8212; With frigid temperatures in the forecast, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has issued a cold weather alert, urging local residents to take precautions against the dipping temperatures. The alert will be in effect through Thursday in the Antelope Valley. &#8220;Children, the elderly and people with disabilities or special medical needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":27804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}