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Pasco County to open comfort stations for residents in need

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PASCO COUNTY, Fla. — Pasco County is opening two comfort stations for residents in need that will provide A/C, showers, and charging stations.

Both sites will be open beginning Sunday, September 29 from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. until further notice.

Here are the comfort station sites:

  • Hudson Library located at 8012 Library Road in Hudson
  • J. Ben Harrill recreation Complex located at 2830 Gulf Trace Boulevard in Holiday

The City of New Port Richey will also open a comfort station beginning Sunday from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. It will be located at the New Port Richey Recreation & Aquatic Center located at 6630 Van Buren Street.
All of the locations above will have the following amenities:

  • air conditioning
  • restrooms
  • showers (bring toiletries)
  • laundry (bring supplies)
  • charging stations

A state report says hundreds of frail elderly nursing home residents were stacked side by side, head to toe in a small church with no working air conditioning or refrigerator during Hurricane Helene.

Florida nursing home patients were 'side by side, head to toe' with no air conditioning, food