Portsmouth families fear illness or death due to little or no air conditioning

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — A beacon leads one to safety, but at Beacon303 at Olde Towne, many residents say the conditions in this building could lead them to the grave.

Drake Milstead said he woke up in the middle of the night early Thursday drenched in sweat.

Portsmouth apartment complex residents struggle with heat amid malfunctioning AC

“Yeah, it ‘bleep’ me off,” Milstead said. “A lot of this stuff is making everyone in this building getting severely dehydrated or running with no AC.”

88 degrees, and 90 degrees, that’s what two residents recorded inside their units this week…

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