The Houston Fire Department is responding to more heat-related illness calls in June compared to previous months. KPRC2Rilwan has more on what HFD is advising Houstonians to do: hfd kprc2 click2hou weather
“It is a significant increase in calls. It’s shocking the amount of calls that we’ve jumped up to,” said fire department spokesperson Firefighter Abby Cortez.
According to data shared with KPRC 2, last July the fire department received 455 high-temperature calls, the highest for the agency in five years.“We don’t like to see it too much because want to make sure all the residents are safe. We don’t like seeing these incidents,” Cortez said. “We just have to react and take care of the city.”
“Heat exhaustion is one of those things that happens early on when your body temperatures are rising. You could have excessive sweating. Your heart rate may be fast. You might have muscle cramps. You might have nausea, vomiting,” said Dr. Andrabi. “And then heat stroke is when your body temperature gets so high you’re not able to sweat it off. As we say, you need help cooling off. At that point, you might have things like abnormal mental status, like you’re not answering questions correctly.
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