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<\/p>\nDALLAS – In the midst of a brutal, triple-digit heat streak, volunteers are doing what they can to make sure North Texas\u2019 most vulnerable residents are staying cool.<\/p>\n
Box Fan Deliveries <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
FOX 4 tagged along on Wednesday as the Visiting Nurses Association of North Texas made food deliveries through the Meals on Wheels program.<\/p>\n
An estimated 4,000 volunteers are depended on to deliver about 7,000 meals per day.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, they also brought box fans to some of their clients. The VNA said a single box fan can make the difference between a safe home and a health emergency.<\/p>\n
What they’re saying:<\/p>\n
The recipients that FOX 4 talked to were extremely grateful. One grandmother got extremely emotional when she received the fan. She said she desperately needs the circulating air in her bedroom.<\/p>\n
“Awe, I don\u2019t know what to say. Thank you, thank you!” Arbere Key exclaimed.<\/p>\n
“I appreciate them so much because they\u2019re always out here asking us how we\u2019re doing. Is everything alright? I enjoy them and that makes me feel good,” added recipient Alice Fuller.<\/p>\n
The volunteers themselves are also dealing with the dangerous heat and have been taking steps to stay safe.<\/p>\n
“If it\u2019s hot outside, I can come right here and get ice cold water for the route,” said Kyle Francis, a volunteer. “These were donated to us by a donor. We have these throughout the summer.”<\/p>\n
Francis explained that most volunteers will park in a neighborhood and walk to multiple homes along the route.<\/p>\n
“So, you\u2019re getting sweaty, getting hot yourself. So, it\u2019s important to have water and keep yourself hydrated,” he said.<\/p>\n
What you can do:<\/p>\n
To get involved with the Meals on Wheels program in the Dallas area, visit https:\/\/www.vnatexas.org\/our-services\/meals-on-wheels\/<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: FOX 4’s Alex Boyer gathered information for this story by following along with the Meals on Wheels volunteers.<\/p>\n Weather<\/a>Dallas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS – In the midst of a brutal, triple-digit heat streak, volunteers are doing what they can to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,104,103,223,216,393,172],"class_list":["post-391023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391023","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=391023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}