Sentence examples for heat emergency from inspiring English sources
Chicago learned from the disaster, and today it is a national leader in planning for the next acute heat emergency.
Chicago officials declared the second of two heat emergency warnings this year on Wednesday and opened more than 100 cooling centers where residents could go for relief.
In New York City, the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management has not had to activate its heat emergency plan at all this year.
On Wednesday, the D.C. government activated its heat emergency plan because temperatures were expected to reach at least 95 degrees, which opens cooling centers throughout the city.
Given the intensity of the expected heat, heat advisories by the National Weather Service and a heat emergency declaration by the District are likely.
But down in the subway in Lower Manhattan, Mohd Johar was having a heat emergency that struck at the very heart of his livelihood: his Baby Ruths were melting.
Participants were asked to review and comment on the likely effectiveness of a NYC DOHMH brochure on heat emergencies.
We found that all the providers in these focus groups clearly understood the multilevel relationship between environment, heat emergencies, and health.
Using extreme heat as a climate-related case study, the moderator's guide was designed to focus on four aspects of heat emergencies: context, causes of vulnerability, public health messages, and health care provider role (see Table 1).
The NYC DOHMH currently runs campaigns to inform the general public and health care providers about protecting vulnerable groups during heat emergencies, flooding during extreme storms, and other events potentially related to climate change.
The public health community could learn from the clinicians' intimate knowledge of their patient populations and leverage the clinicians' status as integrated members of the community in order to reduce health risks and save lives during heat emergencies and other climate change related events.
