Baltimore Issues Code Red Extreme Heat Alert For Next Three Days

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Letitia Dzirasa connected Tuesday issued a Code Red Extreme Heat Alert for the adjacent 3 days, erstwhile the vigor scale is expect to scope implicit 100 degrees astatine times.

The declaration lasts from Wednesday, Aug. 25 to Friday, Aug. 27.

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Five cooling centers operated by the Baltimore City Health Department’s Division of Aging volition unfastened crossed the metropolis to supply alleviation for aged residents.

They are:

• Oliver Center Senior Center 1700 Gay St., 410-396-3861
• Hatton Senior Center 2825 Fait Ave., 410-396-9025
• Harford Senior Center 4920  Harford Road, 410-426-4009
• Sandtown Winchester Senior Center 1601 Baker St., 410-396-7725
• Zeta Center for Healthy and Active Aging 4501 Reistertown Road, 410-396-3535

Seniors are encouraged to telephone a cooling halfway successful beforehand to marque definite determination is room. Due to COVID-19, masks indispensable beryllium worn successful the centers and residents indispensable support six feet of separation.

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Cooling halfway accusation is besides disposable by calling 311.

“Excessive vigor is the starring weather-related slayer successful the United States. The effects of utmost vigor are exacerbated successful municipality areas, particularly erstwhile combined with precocious humidity and mediocre aerial quality,” said Dr. Dzirasa. “Extreme vigor is peculiarly unsafe for young children, older adults, and those with chronic aesculapian conditions. I promote each residents to instrumentality the indispensable steps to support themselves arsenic good arsenic their families, neighbors, and pets.”

During a codification reddish for heat, residents are promote to portion much water, trim extracurricular activities, enactment wrong from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and cheque connected older, sick oregon frail neighbors.

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The wellness section besides encourages residents to look for signs of vigor exhaustion and heatstroke, specified arsenic nausea, confusion, lightheadedness, a accelerated oregon slowed heartbeat, a precocious assemblage somesthesia with clammy skin, and flushed skin.

CBS Baltimore Staff