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[NEWS] Outreach Specialists Comb Philadelphia Area, Searching For Homeless in Danger of Freezing

From CBS 3: 

A “code blue” has been declared in our area because of the brutal weather on the horizon, and outreach workers are hitting the streets, trying to convince hundreds of chronically homeless men and women living around Philadelphia to come inside.

Today, we rode with a team as they searched hidden campsites in center city. They looked beneath bridges and alongside railroad tracks for hidden huts and makeshift camps where the chronically homeless live, out of sight.

“We make sure that nobody dies out here, because that could happen very easily,” notes Sam Santiago, an outreach response worker with Project HOME.

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