Mayor calls on city, residents to prepare for extended heat wave
Nickels urges community to check on neighbors
SEATTLE - With an extended record heat wave predicted this week, Mayor Greg Nickels today urged residents to check on each other and he called together his department heads and Emergency Executive Board to discuss steps the city can take to help protect the public.
"If you have elderly neighbors, it's especially important now to check on them to make sure they are all right or help them find relief from the heat," said Nickels.
The city is mobilizing to respond to the heat wave. Case managers in the Human Services Department will begin calling senior citizen clients to check on their welfare. City workers, including police officers, are determining ways to keep the homeless hydrated. Seattle City Light is monitoring electrical demand. Although the utility has reached peak demand for July, the city still has adequate supplies.
All locations of the Seattle Public Library are open regular hours this week. The following branches are air conditioned:
- Ballard
- Beacon Hill
- Broadview
- Capitol Hill
- Central
- Delridge
- Douglass-Truth
- Greenwood
- High Point
- International District/Chinatown
- Lake City
- Magnolia
- Montlake
- NewHolly
- Northgate
- Rainier Beach
- South Park
Wading pools have extended hours:
Delridge
Hiawatha
Cal Anderson
normally close at 7 p.m. They will stay open until 7:30 p.m.
East Queen Anne
South Park
Wallingford
Dahl
EC Hughes
normally run until 7 p.m. They will be open until 8 p.m.
Van Asselt
Lincoln Park
Green Lake
Volunteer Park
normally close at 8 p.m. They will stay open until 8:30 p.m.
Swimming beaches usually close at 7 p.m. They will stay open until 8 p.m.
Seattle Center has extended the hours of operation for International and Dupen Fountains: 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. to offer the public a means to cool down from the heat. Center House, an air conditioned facility, is
open 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. for public use as a cooling station.
The National Weather Service has issued a heat warning in effect until
6 p.m. on Thursday. Seattle King County Public Health offers hot weather safety tips at:
The King County Beat the Heat Web site.
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