Kimberly Rash
42:56 - 43:26
“warming is that an individual cannot sleep all night. They have to stay up and that's due to fire code. And so warming isn't ideal because imagine you having to stay up and someone trying to poke you awake all through the night”
- Speaker
- Kimberly Rash
- Timestamp
- 42:56 – 43:26
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 21, 2026
From the transcript
So warming, just to make sure that everyone understands what warming is, so warming in the context aspects of what we do here at the municipality or what we've historically done in the past, warming is that an individual cannot sleep all night. They have to stay up and that's due to fire code. And so warming isn't ideal because imagine you having to stay up and someone trying to poke you awake all through the night while you're like, hey, I'm warm, I'm, you know, I have a snack and I, you know, I'm not thirsty anymore. And it just does not work well. And so really what we have, we've gone away from warming and what we have in place is our surge.
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