{"id":1029317,"date":"2026-08-28T10:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T10:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1029317\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T10:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T10:55:19","slug":"sheriffs-office-hart-team-offers-resources-to-the-homeless-during-heat-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1029317\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff&#8217;s Office HART Team offers resources to the homeless during heat wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO \u2014 The marine layer began to burn off Thursday morning at Waterfront Park in Downtown San Diego as a slight breeze cut through the heat and humidity that started to build.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With these conditions, the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sdsheriff.gov\/community\/homeless-outreach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office HART team<\/a>, its homeless outreach team, was out here offering a variety of resources to help the homeless in the area who are out in this heat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going around and contacting the unhoused individuals here at the park,\u201d Deputy Ali Geber with the San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office HART Team said. \u201cWe&#8217;re offering them resources.\u00a0We&#8217;re getting them connected to the RHAP program, which is the hotel voucher program. We&#8217;re handing out water, and we are just making connections with the\u00a0individuals here to try to get them out of this heat right now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Geber and a half dozen deputies with the team were out on the scheduled day at Waterfront Park amid this latest heat wave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say there probably has been a rise in the population coming down to the\u00a0beach just because of the weather compared to\u00a0more inland where it&#8217;s getting hotter right now,\u201d Geber said.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.10news.com\/news\/local-news\/sheriffs-department-hart-team-assists-unhoused-amid-high-heat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">offering things<\/a> like water, Narcan, shelter options and help from social workers to the unhoused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one wants to be sitting out in the weather.\u00a0And so, when we do offer those programs and those resources,\u00a0it is a good push just to help get them connected to those resources,\u00a0especially in those high heat and high cold temperatures,\u201d Geber said.<\/p>\n<p>Still, some may only be ready for just a bottle of water at this point.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does help to build a rapport with the people that we contact.\u00a0Sometimes it takes one visit,\u00a0sometimes it takes several visits just to get\u00a0them connected to the resources that they need,\u201d Geber said.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s high heat or perfect San Diego weather, take it from Tom, who&#8217;s been homeless for 20 years; any little bit helps.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just the water.\u00a0I mean, I know some people they drink,\u00a0you know,\u00a0they&#8217;re always going through water and scrounging for water,\u201d Tom said. \u201cGoing out and finding out and asking,\u00a0you know.\u00a0So, that&#8217;s probably the big thing is just, you know,\u00a0making the effort to at least.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO \u2014 The marine layer began to burn off Thursday morning at Waterfront Park in Downtown San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1029318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,411634,5370,238705,411635,3549,411636,376679,7447,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,126957],"class_list":["post-1029317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-deputy-ali-geber","tag-heat-wave","tag-homeless-population","tag-rhap-program","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county-sheriffs-office-hart-team","tag-san-diego-heat-wave","tag-san-diego-weather","tag-sandiego","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-waterfront-park"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117172773061086292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1029318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}