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Keeping cool during the heat wave
Keeping cool during the heat wave
AUBURN, Wash. -- When you can’t escape the sweltering heat, you look for relief.
“It feels really good,” Kristin McCord said said Friday as she took a dip at Five Mile Lake Park in Auburn.
Meagan Both is relying on a window AC unit in her kitchen to make it through because it's 95 degrees upstairs in the kid’s playroom.
“It’s horrible,” Both said.
But she has more to worry about than just the heat. Both says the Lakeland Hills Homeowner Association claims she is breaking the rules by using a protruding window AC unit.
“Threatening $30 a day if we don’t remove our air conditioner in four days,” Both said.
Residents at Lakeland Hills say the HOA’s refusal to bend the rules for aesthetics is putting residents in danger.
“I’m fighting it. I will go door to door if I have to sign a petition,” Both said.
Q13 FOX News is waiting to hear back from the HOA about the AC unit fines.
As the AC unit battle heats up in Auburn, there is another battle to stay hydrated in Seattle.
Seattle Union Gospel Mission is handing out free water to the homeless.
“We are doing this as long as the temperatures are above 80 degrees. So we are planning to do this all week long,” Scott Cleveland said.
But to keep handouts going, they need water donations from the community.