All they were trying to do was stay warm, friends and family said of the two unhoused individuals found dead in their tent in Fresno.
Fresno police responded to a call from an unhoused individual Friday afternoon at an encampment along the Highway 180 interchange at Abby Street, officials said. When they arrived, they found Denise Celis, 52, and Donald Wallace, 50, deceased in their tent.
The pair had a warming fire burning on an old kettle inside their tent in an apparent effort to stay warm, said California Highway Patrol Spokesperson Mike Salas. The central San Joaquin Valley has experienced an unseasonably cold winter and weeks of foggy weather due to an extra-rainy autumn. The night before the couple was found dead, temperatures dropped to 39 degrees in Fresno, according to the National Weather Service…