LOS ANGELES \u2014 Downtown Los Angeles just reached 100 degrees for the fifth consecutive day, making it the longest stretch ever in October.<\/p>\n
In response to the triple-digit temperatures, the nonprofits Strategic Action for a Just Economy as well as Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education, along with local Alexis Jackson, helped organize a cooling kit distribution event in South LA.<\/p>\n
LADWP<\/a> and SoCal Edison<\/a> both have programs to help residential customers with increasingly high bills. According to a study from Caltech<\/a>, surface temperatures in low-income areas of LA County can measure up to 36 degrees hotter at noon on a summer day than in wealthier neighborhoods.<\/p>\n The City of Los Angeles has cooling centers at local libraries but has yet to pass a safe indoor-temperature ordinance, like the one the county implemented last year. The motion established a maximum indoor-temperature threshold of 82 degrees for all rental housing units in the county.<\/p>\n Click the arrow above to watch the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Downtown Los Angeles just reached 100 degrees for the fifth consecutive day, making it the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2997,2999,171294,7,48,52,51,47,50,49,1492,5999,28190,5996,19,171295],"class_list":["post-489170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-weather","tag-app-weather-stories","tag-california","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-public-safety","tag-socal-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vania-patino","tag-vod","tag-weather","tag-weather-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}