What Does Code Blue Mean For Philly Residents? - WHYY

Home » Code Blue Weather Meaning » What Does Code Blue Mean For Philly Residents? - WHYY

Maybe your like

During extremely cold weather — when temperatures feel near or below 20 degrees Fahrenheit, or when there is precipitation and the temperature is 32 degrees Fahrenheit or lower — Philadelphia officials will declare a Code Blue.

What does that mean for Philly residents?

During a Code Blue event, the city implements special measures to keep people who are experiencing homelessness safe. Those measures include 24-hour outreach to find unhoused people and transport them to safe indoor spaces and opening all available beds within the city’s emergency housing network for those in need.

People experiencing homelessness may go to a city-funded homeless intake center for help.

  • WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor

What is an ‘Enhanced Code Blue’?

During an Enhanced Code Blue, Philadelphia’s Office of Emergency Management makes available an interactive map that shows warming centers in each City Council district.

How to find help

People experiencing homelessness may go to a city-funded homeless intake center for help, though such centers are closed during snow emergencies, on holidays and on the weekends.

After-hour intake centers stay open 24/7 when the city has declared a snow emergency.

Tag » Code Blue Weather Meaning