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The late-spring heat wave is the first test run for Saskatoon’s newly minted heat response strategy.
The partnership between the city and 19 community agencies helps the homeless and vulnerable families during periods of extreme heat.
Saskatoon’s director of emergency management, Pamela Goulden-McLeod, said the strategy was developed after the extreme heat waves experienced in the summer of 2018.
“We identified that’s a real vulnerability in our city, that we’re not as good at dealing with the heat as the cold,” she said. “We’re used to the cold, we’re not used to the heat.”
The heat response is modelled after the cold-weather strategy, which helps vulnerable people escape the elements.
Alerts are issued on a 1 to 4 scale and are triggered based on temperature and air quality.
With temperatures cracking the 30 C range this week, a Level 2 warning was issued across the city Wednesday.
Goulden-McLeod said under that criteria, bottled water is distributed and frontline workers are directing people to cool-down locations around the city.
“These are all locations people can go for no charge and take a break from the heat,” she said. “That includes going and hanging out in the leisure centres in the air conditioning or the library.”
Alerts are distrubuted by email and by EMO through the NotifyNow system.
