Interfaith Prayer Service on Zoom, Tues, April. 11th at 12:15 PM for the RECORD 52 People "Without Fixed Abode" who died in March 2023 in OC
All are invited to a Zoom Interfaith Memorial Prayer Service on Tuesday, April 11th at 12:15 PM for the RECORD 52 people who died "Without Fixed Abode" in OC in March, 2023 as well as the 5 other people who had died in February, 2023 but had still gone unrecorded last month. Zoom info below. The 52 people who died “without fixed abode” in March along with the 5 others now added to February's total (44+5) make the first quarter of this year already 17.4% worse than even last year (149 deaths vs 123 deaths last year in the first quarter) and nearly 3x worse than the death toll in 2019 when 52 people had died "without fixed abode" in the first three months of that year. Yet, it perhaps could have been worse. The cold weather shelters, full (in Fullerton it was operating at at 120% capacity), almost certainly saved some lives. And there has been significant push to get the fentanyl antidote Narcan on the streets to counteract overdoses. It was also a particu