{"id":125258,"date":"2026-02-27T17:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125258\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T17:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:16:06","slug":"lackawanna-county-declares-code-blue-alert-through-tuesday-amid-frigid-chills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125258\/","title":{"rendered":"Lackawanna County declares Code Blue alert through Tuesday amid frigid chills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As dangerously cold temperatures and wind chills move into Lackawanna County, the Lackawanna County Emergency Management Agency and the City of Scranton have declared a Code Blue Frigid Weather Alert from Saturday night (February 28) through Tuesday morning (March 3).<\/p>\n<p>During the Saturday night into Sunday morning period, wind chills are expected to drop to 20 degrees, with a chance for mixed precipitation. From Saturday night into Monday morning, temperatures are forecast to fall to 15 degrees with a wind chill of 6 degrees. From Monday night into Tuesday morning, temperatures are expected to dip to 14 degrees with a wind chill of 6 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>A Code Blue is issued during extremely cold weather, when temperatures are expected to drop below 20 degrees, and triggers a plan to help vulnerable populations, especially people experiencing homelessness.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency shelter options during the alert include:<\/p>\n<p>St. Anthony\u2019s Haven, 409 Olive St., Scranton, open 7 p.m. to 8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Weston Field House, 982 Providence Road, Scranton, open at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Community Intervention Center (CIC), 445 North 6th Ave., Scranton, open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As dangerously cold temperatures and wind chills move into Lackawanna County, the Lackawanna County Emergency Management Agency and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-125258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}