In December, Nicole Burnard aims to open Cache Valley’s first emergency crisis response warming center, with locations in Logan and North Logan at a church and a veterans' center.
LOGAN, Utah — There will soon be a place for people experiencing homelessness in northern Utah to stay warm.
“One night in particular, January 1st of this year, within two hours, we found, like, eight people sleeping in their cars. It was single-digit temperatures," she said."And that was the moment that really motivated me to take action.”“He had another injury, and he got prescribed opiates, and then there was some trouble in his marriage, and just one of those strings of unfortunate things," she said."He ended up living out of his car, and he did die by suicide in 2003.
"We want to save lives in the winter and help our most vulnerable community members," said Burnard."There's not really any options here in northern Utah, here in Cache Valley.”
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