JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville\u2019s City Rescue Mission is working to make sure everyone without a home has a warm shelter and a hot meal during the cold weather.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt can be dangerously cold for them,\u201d said Paul Stasi, LCSW, Executive Director of City Rescue Mission.<\/p>\n
The organization extended its overnight shelter services, so those experiencing homelessness can check in at the City Rescue Mission\u2019s New Life Inn campus on West State Street in Downtown.<\/p>\n
That location can hold an additional 40-45 people.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen if more come in, we can transport them to our other campus, which is on McDuff,\u201d Stasi said.<\/p>\n
On Monday night, Stasi said they helped an additional 15 people. And he anticipates that need will be even greater on Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cToday is a chilly day, and tomorrow will be too, and another chilly night,\u201d Stasi said.<\/p>\n When folks check in, they will not only get a hot meal and a shower, but their clothes will be washed, and they will get breakfast in the morning.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to help get them off the street when it\u2019s this cold like this,\u201d Stasi said.<\/p>\n The shelter\u2019s expanded hours and increased overnight capacity will stay in place as long as temperatures stay below 40 degrees.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville\u2019s City Rescue Mission is working to make sure everyone without a home has a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15057,1131,52790,30779,116,118,117,634,40734,52792,52791,52789],"class_list":{"0":"post-100606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-alexis","9":"tag-alexis_clevinger","10":"tag-city_rescue_mission","11":"tag-garrett","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","14":"tag-jacksonville-news","15":"tag-local","16":"tag-mcduff","17":"tag-new_life_inn","18":"tag-rescue_mission","19":"tag-west_state_street"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}