Now, city staff are studying the costs and feasibility of cooling off all rental units citywide. By the time it subsided, Los Angeles County emergency crews had responded to 146 calls classified as “heat” - defined by the agency as environmental hyperthermia. Just last year, Southern California was gripped by a 10-day heat wave that smashed temperature records. Heading into the peak of summer, Los Angeles officials want to know what it would take to require every rental unit in the city to have an air conditioner or central air. Al Manzano, founder of A&M Refrigeration Co., cools his hand on the vent fan outlet on an air conditioning unit on the roof of an apartment building in North Hollywood.
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