Cold snap: 3 people transported to hospital by EMS, nearly 400 utilize overnight shelters

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Austin-Travis County EMS says it ran at least five cold-related illness incident calls Tuesday overnight into Wednesday as temperatures plummeted well below freezing. Of those patients, three were transported to area hospitals, EMS said."Any time you add an additional weather element, you're complicating the situation, right? So even if it was dry and cold, now it's going to be dry and windy and cold, and maybe it's going to be wet and cold. So every complicating factor you add