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Newark shelters, hospitals struggle to deal with 100-degree temps

By TAPinto.com  
   June 24, 2025

City hospitals and homeless shelters are already feeling the weight of this week's heat wave, in which temperatures are expected to reach 100 degrees with a heat index of 102 degrees. Newark activated a Code Red for 11 a.m. Sunday, June 22 through 8 a.m. Thursday, June 26 – the city's first Code Red of the season with temperatures exceeding 90 degrees for two days or more. 

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