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Cities have long made plans
for extreme heat. Are they
enough in a warming world?
By MELINA WALLING and ISABELLA O’MALLEY
CHICAGO (AP) — Natural disasters can be dramatic —
barreling hurricanes, building-toppling tornadoes — but
heat is more deadly. Chicago learned that the hard
way in 1995. That July, a weeklong heat wave that hit
106 degrees Fahrenheit (41 degrees Celsius) killed more
than 700 people. Most of the deaths occurred in poor
and majority Black neighborhoods, where many elderly
or isolated people suffered without proper ventilation or
air conditioning. Power outages from an overwhelmed
grid made it all worse.
Initially slow to react, Chicago has since developed
emergency heat response plans that include a massive
push to alert the public and then connect the most
vulnerable to the help they may need. Other cities
like Los Angeles, Miami and Phoenix now have “chief
heat officers” to coordinate planning and response for
dangerous heat. Robert Harris drinks water while taking a break from digging fence post holes, Tuesday, June 27,
Continued on Page 3 2023, in Houston. Associated Press