A high school gym on the Central Coast is being pressed into use as an emergency shelter for the homeless. With existing facilities in the Santa Maria Valley packed because of the rain and coronavirus, the Santa Maria High School gym is being used as shelter space. About 20 people were housed in the gym Sunday night. School staff isn’t involved in the shelter effort.
Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.