With the dropping temperatures, Dianne Smith and other members of the Gainesville homeless camp near the Industrial Boulevard railroad tracks are taking all of the blankets they can get their hands on to protect themselves from the freezing ground.
How 911 dispatchers, Gainesville police are helping homeless for Christmas
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