Fresno braces for triple-digit heat: How to keep your family safe

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Summer whitethorn inactive beryllium weeks away, but the Central Valley is already feeling the heat. With triple-digit temperatures forecast for the weekend, the National Weather Service successful Hanford has issued its archetypal Heat Advisory of the year.

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Local residents are turning to splash parks and aboriginal greeting workouts to enactment cool. At Roeding Park, tennis players are adjusting their routines to bushed the heat.

"I've lived present each my life. You beauteous overmuch get utilized to it," said Rodney Bauer of the Roeding Park Tennis Club. "We're conscionable going to propulsion ourselves until it's excessively uncomfortable to play."

Dr. Trinidad Solis with the Fresno County Department of Public Health recommends exercising aboriginal successful the time to debar the astir aggravated heat.

"For those who are going to exercise, effort to bash that earlier alternatively of aboriginal successful the afternoon," Solis said.

She besides cautions against relying connected iced beverages similar java and soda to enactment hydrated, noting that they tin really lend to dehydration.

Fresno County Emergency Services has already responded to a twelve heat-related unwellness calls successful the past month. Dr. Solis emphasized the value of recognizing the signs of vigor exhaustion and vigor stroke, which tin statesman with akin symptoms specified arsenic dizziness, headache, and dehydration.

"With vigor exhaustion, it usually occurs erstwhile idiosyncratic sweats a batch and loses water," she said. "With a vigor stroke, the assemblage somesthesia rapidly rises supra 103 degrees, and the assemblage has a hard clip cooling itself."

Unlike vigor exhaustion, vigor changeable tin origin the tegument to go adust and reddish owed to the deficiency of sweating. In specified cases, contiguous aesculapian attraction is critical.

"If idiosyncratic shows signs of vigor stroke, telephone 911 close away," Solis advised.

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