Meet Marta Segura, L.A.'s first chief heat officer. She will help coordinate the city’s emergency response to extreme heat.
would create the nation’s first warning system for heat waves, just as existing systems warn of other natural disasters such as wildfires, tornadoes, and hurricanes.
There are two goals. The first is changes to the system — the services and the infrastructure of the city. The other is education and awareness — that people know that extreme heat is more serious so they can take steps to protect themselves.We’re tackling education with an extreme-heat campaign that will launch July 1.
So when you add that to our public facilities — parks, libraries, youth centers, which are all accessible during the day — you have a lot of opportunities to tell people where to go in the event of a heat storm or heat wave.It keeps me up at night. Addressing the most vulnerable community isn’t out of charity. And it isn’t because of moral reasons.
We want to make sure to get this information out to employers, so we probably need to come up with culturally relevant communications. It’s an evolving campaign.We will be allocating approximately 30% of our budget to heat-risk prevention work, and although our budget is not large, our impact on other partner departments, such as public works and the emergency management department, is significant.
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