The Emergency Warming Shelter at Fuji Park will be open starting tonight, Monday, Dec. 14 from 6:30 p.m. to 7 a.m. and Tuesday, Dec. 15, with times times to be announced, due to the projected nighttime temperatures being below 15 degrees.
The shelter may be open longer based on the over-night low temperatures forecasted by the Nevada Appeal. FISH is coordinating with the City of Carson City and the Red Cross to provide a safe, warm place for people to get out of the freezing weather.
We will take people: 1) who are intoxicated, but do not have any alcohol or drugs in their possession; 2) who have pets that will be under their owner’s supervision; 3) who have no shelter available to them; 4) who are not a danger to themselves or others. We will be having volunteers who will be proctoring the Warming Shelter.
Also, we will be having our Shelter Shuttle available to transport people from FISH to the Warming Shelter, tonight at 6p.m. (they need to be by FISH by 6p.m. and shuttle would be leaving around 6:15 p.m.), and then back from the Warming Shelter to FISH at 7a.m.