FLAGSTAFF, AZ (AZFamily) — Flagstaff Shelter Services has completed its new transitional housing complex just in time to help over a hundred people get out of the cold this winter.

It can take less than an hour for someone to die in freezing temperatures. There’s already been at least one exposure death in Coconino County this year.

Flagstaff Shelter Services has been giving homeless people a safe place to stay for almost 20 years. They opened the Lantern, a motel-turned-apartment complex, this fall to expand that mission.

Ross Schaefer, shelter executive director, said this is their second hotel-to-housing project .

“People die in Northern Arizona when they sleep outside,” Schaefer said. “It’s been a long time in the making, but it is so worth it to see these folks getting to mov

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