Portland firefighters handed out water to the homeless and residents of the normally cool city flocked to cooling shelters as the U.S. Pacific Northwest baked for a third day on Friday under an oppressive heat wave.
Temperatures soared into the triple digits Fahrenheit across northwestern Oregon and into Washington state, pushing power grids to the limit.
Nearly 800 people had taken shelter in cooling centers across Portland as of Friday morning, a city spokesman said. About 150 had spent the night. "What we're trying to do is to go to people instead of having people come to us, and so we found that people are comfortable where they are. They have communities, they have items, and sometimes they don't want to seek formal shelters." said Alex Dolle, a 17-year-old volunteer with the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management.
The high temperatures marked the third heat wave of the summer to punish the Pacific Northwest, caused, according to the National Weather Service, by a series of high-pressure systems stalled over the region.
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