Alameda County’s homeless residents suffered through a cold night before volunteers counted them Wednesday morning in the county’s first biennial tally since 2019.

About 500 volunteers fanned out across the county starting at 5 a.m. when it felt like 34 degrees at the Oakland Airport, according to the National Weather Service.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.