Beyond planning formal emergency declarations, local officials are lining up daytime cooling spaces and preparing for potential of overnight shelters
Officials urge: Meet your neighbors. Talk to friends and relatives who live alone. Find out what they may need during hot weather
Elected officials and health experts gather Sunday to kick off Heat Week, honoring those who died in series of record 2021 heat events and sharing findings from a final accounting of those deaths
The County extracted key lessons from its hot- and cold-weather emergency responses over the past year
Emergency management quickly identified what worked, what didn’t and how to improve the response to future heat events. Thanks to that work, the County had new measures during two later heat waves.
Multnomah County and the City of Portland returned to normal operations after five days of activity over the four-day heat wave.
With an excessive heat advisory in effect until 10 pm tonight, Multnomah County and City of Portland 24-hour Cooling Centers remain open one more night for those seeking a place to cool down.
Volunteers can be involved in setting up and breaking down of cooling centers, helping guests get settled in, offering food and water, or simply providing valuable information.
The text aimed at highest and hardest-to-reach individuals
Temperatures are expected to remain high today, with poor air quality at times, as statewide mask mandate goes into effect
Sign up for a volunteer shift, review the list of cool spaces, and bookmark Help for when it’s Hot
Take steps to protect pets during extreme heat. Cooling centers can also offer a space of refuge for people and pets.