SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – Several warming centers will be open through Sunday in the Bay Area, as the region prepares for plunging temperatures.
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Santa Clara County has seven warming centers set up in the Cupertino, Gilroy, Los Altos, Milpitas, Morgan Hill, Saratoga and Woodland library branches. They will be open during the day and early evening hours according to an announcement Monday from the Santa Clara County Office of Emergency Management. The county is bracing for temperatures to dip into the 30s overnight through the weekend.
Free rides to the centers will be available until Friday for people who use the buses and light rail of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.
Santa Clara County has also set up an overnight shelter program in Mountain View for women and families that opened on Monday. It is scheduled to open from 3 p.m. to 9 a.m. through March. The shelter is located at the Los Altos United Methodist Church's Mountain View campus at the corner of Hope and Mercy streets.
In the North Bay, an overnight warming shelter will be open in Santa Rosa from Tuesday to Wednesday, 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. The temporary shelter is found at the Homeless Services Center of Catholic Charities' new Caritas Center in downtown Santa Rosa at 301 Sixth St., Suite 108.
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