{"id":339879,"date":"2026-06-17T14:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/339879\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T14:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:35:11","slug":"open-door-community-center-open-as-cooling-station-for-those-seeking-refuge-from-extreme-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/339879\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Door Community Center open as cooling station for those seeking refuge from extreme heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; With temperatures hitting 108 in Lubbock Wednesday, Open Door is open until 5 p.m. for those seeking refuge from the extreme heat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Open Door is reminding the community about the serious dangers the summer heat poses for people experiencing homelessness. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The non-profit\u2019s community center will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. for anyone seeking shelter. The community center is located at 1918 13th Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Irene is currently pregnant and without a place to stay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt is so important to have a place like Open Door to get out of the heat for my health,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m grateful to have this place today.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Open Door is also asking the community to help meet urgent needs by donating bottled water, sunscreen and bug spray. Donations can be dropped off at the community center.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; With temperatures hitting 108 in Lubbock Wednesday, Open Door is open until 5 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[24280,696,319,251,168,170,169,174,11019,172],"class_list":["post-339879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-extreme-heat","tag-homelessness","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-lubbock-weather","tag-open-door","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}