KXLY
July 17, 2021 5:43 PM
Alex Crescenti
SPOKANE, Wash. — With the temperatures once again expected to rise into the upper 90s, the city of Spokane is opening up their cooling centers to protect vulnerable people from the heat, but in previous instances the centers didn’t draw as many people as some imagined they would.
Starting Sunday at 11 a.m., the City of Spokane will open the Looff Carrousel as a cooling center. When the center was last open back in late June into early July only about 730 people utilized it, but the city says this is still a fairly new response to the extreme heat.