Hot Weather Resources
for
Professionals and Technical Staff
On this page:
Extreme Heat Emergency Response Task Force
Planning Resources
Health Resources
Communication Resources
Other Web Resources
Extreme Heat Emergency Response Task Force
- Extreme Heat Emergency Response Task Force Membership
- Hot Weather Kills Brochure (PDF: 214KB/2 pages)
- Stay Cool When It's Too Hot Tip Sheet (PDF: 29KB/1 page)
Planning Resources
- Excessive Heat Events Guidebook
Designed to help community officials, emergency managers, meteorologists, and others plan for and respond to excessive heat events, the guidebook highlights best practices that have been employed to save lives during excessive heat events in different urban areas and provides a menu of options that officials can use to respond to these events in their communities. (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), July 2005)
- Municipal Heat Wave Response Plans
Bernard, S.M. and M.A. McGeehin, American Journal of Public Health, Research and Practice, Peer Reviewed, September 2004, Vol 94, No. 9: 1520 – 1522
- Planning for Excessive Heat Events
Information from the EPA for Older Adults and Family Caregivers:
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Health Resources
- Management of Heatstroke and Heat Exhaustion
Glazer, J.L., American Family Physician, Vol. 71, No. 11 (June 1, 2005), 2133 – 2140.
- MedLine Plus: Heat Illness
Health Information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
Communication Resource
- Hot Weather Resource Kit for Service Providers
Ottawa Public Health, City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Other Web Resources
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