To access these warming centers or year-round emergency shelters, residents should call the City of Detroit’s Housing Services Helpline at 866-313-2520 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday.

National Weather Service meteorologists warned of temperatures cold enough to be fatal descending across most of the nation.

The bitterly cold temps could also cause hypothermia, a lower body temperature than normal body temperature that could be deadly if untreated. It causes excessive shivering, slowed breathing, mumbled ...