Volunteers across Phoenix are scrambling to ramp up street outreach as an early heat wave pushes highs into the triple digits, following the death this week of a woman many in the outreach community knew as “Mama Dee.” Her passing on Camelback Road, reportedly just weeks before she was set to enter a housing program, has spurred small nonprofits to increase nightly runs for water, food and first aid in areas where people sleep outdoors. Organizers say the loss underscores how quickly heat can turn lethal for people without stable shelter or functioning cooling.
Volunteers mourn ‘Mama Dee’ while stepping up outreach
Tom’s Palms, the grassroots nonprofit that was helping the woman, told Arizona’s Family that she had been shot multiple times by an…..