Establish defensible spaces around shelters. After a series of fires in camps in 2018, the shelter cluster in Palestine promoted the clearing of dry vegetation, waste, and debris from shelter areas.

For many people, that is a basement or a storm shelter ... Ohio Building Code does not require developers to include designated storm shelters in residential complexes. Franklin County Emergency ...

Adirondack communities enhancing emergency communications and sheltering capacities to better respond to increasing extreme weather events.

The building at 2200 Ashland St. was not designed for overnight sleeping, so it doesn’t meet fire codes, meaning it can only ...

Ashland has a night lawn where people can camp overnight ... determined. The building originally opened as a homeless shelter in fall 2023 when the state was under an emergency order.

Marin County supervisors voted Tuesday to renew a shelter crisis ... Jones said relaxing the building code is just the first step in addressing Marin’s need for emergency housing.

Neighbors living by complained about drug use, open fires and trash building up ... with some people at the camp to find out why. KXAN asked, “Would you go into shelter?” ...