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Residents urge committee to track heat- and cold-related deaths, citing local impacts on unhoused and low-income neighborhoods
Summary
Several public-commenters asked the Community Health Committee to prioritize creation of a heat-related deaths tracker (and to include cold-related deaths), citing rising extremes, local urban heat islands in District 2 and immediate neighborhood encounters with people in distress.
Three community members used the public-comment period at the Oct. 23 Community Health Committee meeting to press the panel to develop better tracking of temperature-related deaths and illnesses.
Diana Lopez, who identified ties to a workers'union and said she lives in District 2 near downtown, told the committee the city needs an interagency, community-linked system to track heat-related deaths and illnesses so…
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