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2024 Hennepin County All -Jurisdiction Hazard Mitigation Plan Volume 2 — Hazard Inventory • Wear loose -fitting, lightweight, light-colored clothing. Avoid dark colors because they absorb heat from the sun. • Slow down, stay indoors, and avoid strenuous exercise during the hottest part of the day. • Postpone outdoor games and activities. • Use a buddy system when working in excessive heat. • Take frequent breaks if you must work outdoors. • Check on family, friends and neighbors who do not have air conditioning, who spend much of their time alone or who are more likely to be affected by the heat. • Check on your animals frequently to ensure that they are not suffering from the heat. As an Emergency Management agency, opening cooling centers to the public, adjust cooling center and homeless shelter hours to account for those at need during non-traditional open hours are all response strategies used. Many time neighborhood networks are also unofficially activated to check on their elderly and vulnerable populations. The City of Chicago stated that one of the biggest changes after the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave has been technology. Chicago now has implemented a 311-center phone number to reach City Hall. Someone in another state with an elderly mother living alone in Chicago can call the 311-center, and a well-being check will be conducted by the appropriate agency. This allows the city to be more proactive that reactive when it comes to calls about extreme heat illnesses. 4.3.7.14. Recovery Like many other weather -related disasters, recovery from an extreme heat event is not fast. As mentioned, consequences from extreme heat can begin to show after the extreme heat has subsided so checking on vulnerable populations as part of the response, also carries over to the recovery process. It's important to acclimatize to changes in temperatures. So as the body has started to get used to extreme heat once the temperature drops back down can have effects as well. Giving the human body time to adjust to these shifts is important to remember for workers who may spend most of their day outside. 4.3.7.15. References Bernard, Susan M., and Michael A. McGeehin. 2004. "Municipal Heat Wave Response Plans". Am J Public Health 94 (9): 1520-1522. doi:10.2105/ajph.94.9.1520. Bouchama, Abderrezak, and James Knochel. 2003. "Heat Stroke". The New England Journal of Medicine 346 (25): 1978-1988. Climate Communication Science & Outreach. 2015. "Climate Communication I Heat Waves: The Details". https://www.cIimatecommunication.org/new/features/heat-waves-and-climate- cha nge/heat-waves-the-deta i Is/. Ksi.uconn.edu. 2015. "Wet Bulb Globe Temperature Monitoring I Korey Stringer Institute". http://ksi.uconn.edu/prevention/wet-bulb-globe-temperature-monitoring/. Kunkel, Kenneth E., Stanley A. Changnon, Beth C. Reinke, and Raymond W. Arritt. 1996. "The July 1995 Heat Wave in the Midwest: A Climatic Perspective and Critical Weather Factors". Bull. Amer. 140