WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — As families find ways to beat high temperatures and uncomfortable humidity, one mother in Northwest DC says she and her children have spent the past week without air conditioning in their three-bedroom apartment.
While power was restored Thursday afternoon for nearly 2,000 Pepco customers in the Dupont Circle and West End neighborhoods, after a transformer fire inside a substation, Christina Perry told DC News Now she is at her wits’ end without properly functioning air-conditioning units inside her Brightwood neighborhood apartment.
“It’s 99, 97 to 100 degrees. It’s uncomfortable,” Perry said Thursday afternoon at the Pinnacle Apartments on Peabody Street.
Perry claims her young children have suffered health scares amid rising temperatures, saying, “I’ve been without air for seven days. My daughter had a seizure. My son had to go on his breathing apparatus machine for it, for, you know, the breathing of the heat exacerbation.”…