{"id":476020,"date":"2026-02-18T15:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476020\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:04:11","slug":"atlantic-city-event-helps-225-get-warmth-and-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476020\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic City event helps 225 get warmth and services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingac.com\/photos\/2026\/feb\/17\/217343\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/heat_the_streets_2026_t800.jpg\" alt=\"Residents lined up at Center City Park to get coats and other help during Atlantic City's Heat the Streets event. (Edward Lea\/City of Atlantic City)\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n                        Residents lined up at Center City Park to get coats and other help during Atlantic City&#8217;s Heat the Streets event. (Edward Lea\/City of Atlantic City)<\/p>\n<p>Atlantic City helped 225 residents get help with keeping warm and accessing services during the Heat the Streets event Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Teams from the city&#8217;s Homeless Prevention and Re-entry Services manned tables with coats, sweaters and socks, while serving hot chocolate and soup for those in need.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not been able to catch a break with the extremely cold weather, so it\u2019s important we provide these essential resources to our less fortunate population,\u201d Health and Human Services Director Jarrod Barnes said. \u201cGiving back to our community will always be one of our most important\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Designed to help the city\u2019s most vulnerable residents endure ongoing frigid temperatures, the event also helped with access to valuable community resources.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Marty Small and members of city leadership were on site assisting with clothing distribution and personally serving meals to residents<\/p>\n<p>Support was a community effort, with help from organizations that include Angels in Motion, AtlantiCare, Jewish Family Service of Atlantic &amp; Cape May Counties, Southern New Jersey Family Medical Center, Spread Kindness TriState, and the 988 Suicide &amp; Crisis Lifeline.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/breakingac.com\/photos\/2026\/feb\/17\/217342\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/heat_the_streets_ac.jpg.2736x1824_q85_box-0,0,5472,3648_crop_detail.jpg\"\/><\/a> \u00a0The mayor and his staff pass out hot chocolate and soup. (Edward Lea\/City of Atlantic City)<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents lined up at Center City Park to get coats and other help during Atlantic City&#8217;s Heat the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-476020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}