Local governments are getting creative when it comes to tackling frequent and extreme heat.
This summer's extreme heatwave in western Canada and the Pacific Northwest was linked to hundreds of deaths. How can cities better prepare for dangerously high temperatures?
"There were paramedics puking outside after calls because they were so fatigued and rundown - just getting heat exhaustion symptoms themselves," he says. At some points during the heatwave, there were waits of an hour or more for critical calls coming into the dispatch centre, he says. While heatwaves are among the worst climate-related threats to human health, it's only in recent years that cities have become more concerned with their dangers.
"We're all looking around and understanding we need to develop resilience and adapt to changing conditions and we are trying to be out in front of that."Other cities have begun looking at similar models, like Florida's Miami-Dade County, which recently hired a chief heat officer.
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