{"id":75477,"date":"2017-01-20T13:12:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T21:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=75477"},"modified":"2017-01-25T16:00:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T00:00:38","slug":"cold-weather-alert-for-av-extended-through-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2017\/01\/20\/cold-weather-alert-for-av-extended-through-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold weather alert for AV extended through Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LOS ANGELES &#8211; Health officials Friday extended a cold weather alert through next Tuesday in the Antelope Valley and the county&#8217;s mountain areas due to the National Weather Service&#8217;s forecast for low temperatures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Children, the elderly, and people with disabilities or special medical needs are especially vulnerable during such cold snaps, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Extra precaution should be taken to ensure they don&#8217;t get too cold when they are outside,&#8221; said Jeffrey Gunzenhauser, M.D., the county&#8217;s interim health officer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;There are places where people can go to stay warm, such as shelters or other public facilities,&#8221; Gunzenhauser said. &#8220;We 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;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority has a Winter Shelter Program available December 1 through March 1. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Locations and transportation information are online at www.lahsa.org\/ces\/winter-shelter or by calling the LA County Information line at 2-1-1 from any landline or cell phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People who are deaf or hard of hearing can call the TDD line at 800-660-4026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Health officials Friday extended a cold weather alert through next Tuesday in the Antelope Valley and the county&#8217;s mountain areas due to the National Weather Service&#8217;s forecast for low temperatures. Children, the elderly, and people with disabilities or special medical needs are especially vulnerable during such cold snaps, the Los Angeles County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":46491,"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\/75477"}],"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=75477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}