A guest staying at a warming shelter in Gresham, Oregon, died Saturday after collapsing outside the Multnomah County East Building, the county said in a Sunday press release.
Multnomah County did not release any additional details about the person, such as age, gender and whether they had been living outside. The person had stayed at the location Friday before collapsing outside the building the next day, the authority said.
The person was pronounced dead at a local hospital, the release states.
The county had opened more than a dozen warming shelters as temperatures dipped as low as 14 F last week. While temperatures in Portland’s urban core began to rise late last week, freezing temperatures and rain remained in Multnomah’s eastern edge.
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Multnomah County opened a 24-hour overflow shelter at its Gresham location in response to the brutal conditions.
During the winter storm, there were at least 12 deaths in Oregon due to hypothermia and storm-related accidents. That total does not include traffic fatalities that local police say were caused by icy roads.
Three others died from an electrocution from a fallen powerline in Northeast Portland, while two others were killed by fallen trees.
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Meanwhile, emergency rooms across the county were flooded with people seeking treatment for falls — with a total of 1,035 visits since Jan. 12 — as residents struggled to cope with the icy conditions outside. The largest single-day total came on Friday, Jan. 19, with 228 fall-related visits to local hospitals.
County officials said a typical winter day would see an average of 40 visits for falls.