{"id":224218,"date":"2025-06-23T15:18:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T19:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=224218"},"modified":"2025-06-23T15:18:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T19:18:31","slug":"atlanta-opens-cooling-center-as-heat-wave-hits-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=224218","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Opens Cooling Center As Heat Wave Hits City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Atlanta residents can find relief from scorching temperatures at a new cooling center opening today at Selena S. Butler Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd50 <strong>When It&#8217;s Open:<\/strong> The cooling center will operate Monday, June 23 from 1 to 6 p.m. and Tuesday, June 24 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udccd <strong>Where To Go:<\/strong> Residents can visit Selena S. Butler Park at 98 William Holmes Borders Senior Dr NE, <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Atlanta\"   title=\"Atlanta\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"1598\">Atlanta<\/a>, GA 30312.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf21\ufe0f <strong>Why It Matters:<\/strong> Heat-related illnesses can be dangerous or even deadly, especially for elderly residents, children, and those without access to air conditioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udca7 <strong>What&#8217;s Provided:<\/strong> Free bottled water will be available to all visitors while at the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf06 <strong>The Big Picture:<\/strong> As summer temperatures climb across Georgia, cities are taking proactive measures to protect vulnerable populations. Cooling centers like this one provide crucial public health support during extreme weather events, which are becoming more common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta residents can find relief from scorching temperatures at a new cooling center opening today at Selena S. Butler Park. \ud83d\udd50 When It&#8217;s Open: The cooling center will operate Monday, June 23 from 1 to 6 p.m. and Tuesday, June 24 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. \ud83d\udccd Where To Go: Residents can visit Selena [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":204136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6067],"tags":[15672,10110,9911],"class_list":["post-224218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather","tag-cooling-center","tag-heat","tag-heat-wave","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}