{"id":620955,"date":"2017-05-27T08:15:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T13:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=620955"},"modified":"2017-05-29T12:45:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T17:45:04","slug":"officials-prepare-for-east-texas-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=620955","title":{"rendered":"Officials Prepare for East Texas Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/hot_weather.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/hot_weather-200x133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-620959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/hot_weather-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/hot_weather.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8211; With summer approaching, the Tyler Fire Department and several other agencies re-grouped Friday to finalize the draft for their 2017 Heat Response Plan. KETK reports it&#8217;s nothing new, but they continue to meet each year to make sure the public is informed properly.  &#8220;It&#8217;s not uncommon to hear about heat related injuries, of course, and illnesses &#8212; but also, unfortunately, deaths,&#8221; said Tyler Fire Marshal Paul Findley. &#8220;Also tied to that, the incidents of children in vehicles.&#8221; Findley points to &#8220;some startling statistics on how hot it can get inside of an enclosed vehicle.&#8221;  Their drafted plan shows if the outside temperature is 95 degrees, within an hour the interior air temperature of a car is around 140 degrees.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>The plan also discusses heat-related illnesses and who is most at risk. &#8220;If you have an elderly neighbor, go over there and check and see how they&#8217;re doing every once in awhile; make sure their air conditioner hasn&#8217;t broken. Some of them are on medicines and they&#8217;re not even aware of how hot they&#8217;re getting,&#8221; said Dr. William Moore, ETMC EMS Medical Director. Their plan has a list of places to go if in need of air conditioning, as well as shelters.  &#8220;We&#8217;ll help people get pointed in the right direction if there is a need,&#8221; said Findley.<\/p>\n<p>The newest part to it this year is the State of Texas Emergency Assistance Register (STEAR) program.  &#8220;STEAR provides some in the community an ability to go ahead and pre-register so that in the event of an incident we have the ability to know where these target populations or high risk populations are,&#8221; said Findley. The bullet points within the plan are as follows: purpose, responsibility\/lead agency, science, precautions, medical evaluation, shelters, City of Tyler facilities, Smith County Day Time Locations, transportation, identification of isolated\/elderly at risk individuals, welfare concerns, public affairs network\/hotlines, utility assistance programs, water, donations, reporting systems, and users of this plan. They&#8217;re finalizing the plan and will release it to the public in a few weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; With summer approaching, the Tyler Fire Department and several other agencies re-grouped Friday to finalize the draft for their 2017 Heat Response Plan. KETK reports it&#8217;s nothing new, but they continue to meet each year to make sure the public is informed properly. &#8220;It&#8217;s not uncommon to hear about heat related injuries, of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=620955\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Officials Prepare for East Texas Heat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":620959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 09:50:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620960,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620955\/revisions\/620960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/620959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}