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Heat Health Alert System: Toronto
This heat alert website features a community agency page and Google map listing of all air conditioned libraries, community centres and cooling centres.
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Multi-language Summer Heat Safety Tips (2010)
Toronto Public Health has produced a variety of resources on beating the heat: Advice to Landords; Child Car Safety in Hot Weather; Fan Facts; Heat, Drugs and Alcohol; How to Beat the Heat and Medications & Heat-Related Illness.
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Summer Safety Tips to Beat the Heat: Medications and the Heat (2010)
This pamphlet by Toronto Public Health lists medications that may make it harder for the body to control its temperature.
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Project Water
Project Water is a volunteer organization that evolved in response to the dehydration crisis that people on the streets face during the summer months. Over the past four summers Project Water has located and distributed over 1 million bottles of donated water to over 110 frontline agencies in the Greater Toronto Area.
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Heat Alerts Around the Globe: A Backgrounder
Cathy Crowe writes an indepth piece on the history, practice and policies of heat alerts around the globe in "Anatomy of a Heat Wave" in her August 2006 newsletter.
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Toronto's Heat Alert System
Marco Vittiglio gave a presentation to the Alternative Housing Services Committee which focused on what constitutes a heat alert, how it came about and the process.
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Public Health's Extreme Heat Alert Resources
This web page takes you to a wide range of health-related heat resources ranging from a list of cooling centres in the city to helping pets beat the heat.
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Red Cross Heat Information Line
The Red Cross and Emergency Medical Services will respond to requests to check on those who may be at risk. Those in need of assistance can call the Red Cross Heat Information Line at 416-480-2615 between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.
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What Constitutes a Heat Alert?
Toronto Public Health issues a Heat Alert and Extreme Heat Alert when there is a greater likelihood of deaths occuring due to the weather. You can check our home page, the Toronto Public Health website (see below), or call Community Information Toronto at 416-392-3777 to get on their fax or email list.
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Beating the Heat in Apartment Buildings and Rooming Houses
Toronto Public Health produced a tip sheet for landlords on ways that you can help your tenants "beat the heat."
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