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City Steps In to Cool Senior Apartments | Laredo News
Laredo’s mayor and city leaders are racing against the heat to save seniors at Hamilton Senior Apartments, where temperatures soared into the 90s — dangerously high for vulnerable residents. With existing portable AC units failing in larger units, the city council approved using emergency funds to buy more units while long-term repairs (including a broken cooling tower) are delayed until September. Despite not owning the building, officials are stepping in with twice-weekly wellness checks on all 163 units and scrambling to find reimbursement. After last year’s failed bond measure left…
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