Heat Wave 2011

[medicdan]

Here in New England we are experiencing a bit of a heat wave right now... this picture was taken just a few minutes ago in Central Massachusetts... My company and many municipalities have addedd extra trucks, public cooling stations and are telling the public to stay inside. Us new englanders just aren't set up for heat like this...

How have others experienced it, or what are your services doing? Southerners, do we need some thicker skin?

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[medicdan]

Having trouble uploading a picture... its 105 outside right now.

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[STXmedic]

Here in New England we are experiencing a bit of a heat wave right now... this picture was taken just a few minutes ago in Central Massachusetts... My company and many municipalities have addedd extra trucks, public cooling stations and are telling the public to stay inside. Us new englanders just aren't set up for heat like this...

How have others experienced it, or what are your services doing? Southerners, do we need some thicker skin?

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How hot is your "heat wave"?

 

[medicdan]

105 right now

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[socalmedic]

its a balmy 74*f here

 

[46Young]

I went through eight shirts and four pants yesterday, with a high in the upper 90's. I'm on the fire engine tomorrow for some OT, forecast 100+, working in bunkers should be fun. I drank over three gallons of water/Gatorade yesterday.

 

[Cup of Joe]

122 degree heat index here in NYC.

 

[STXmedic]

Yeah, maybe just some thicker skin To be fair though, I'm freezing when it hits 50

 

[abckidsmom]

We just passed 105. Moved the thermometer into the sun and it shot up to 120. Insane.

 

[Stingray91]

102 in Philadelphia. It was pretty odd earlier when the sun was out with hot rain pouring down.

 

[rwik123]

In a Boston suburb

 

[nemedic]

102 on Rte 114 in Danvers as of approx. 20 minutes ago

 

[wadford]

I'm in South Carolina and it got up to 108 here today with around 90% humidity. Sticky as hell!

 

[NomadicMedic]

101 here in Delaware. My dog almost burst into flames when I took her for a walk.

 

[HotelCo]

[YouTube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPKs2Quk6Ts[/YouTube]

We're having a heat wave...


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[wadford]

One of the best movies ever!!! Definitely one of my favorites!

 

[DesertMedic66]

7pm at night and it's 98 degrees. The high today was 120. We are a small division but cover alot of area. All we really can do is try to add more medic units. We will take our BLS ambulances out of service and change them over to ALS/medic units.

 

[Pneumothorax]

It's 84 now, feels like 93. But it was 93 earlier in the day felt like 107* my damn shoes stuck to the asphalt.

We wear our bunkers, to all our calls fire or Ems. So, for me to put those hot bunkers on to get a refusal I'm not a happy camper =[

 

[Niccigsu]

Here in New England we are experiencing a bit of a heat wave right now... this picture was taken just a few minutes ago in Central Massachusetts... My company and many municipalities have addedd extra trucks, public cooling stations and are telling the public to stay inside. Us new englanders just aren't set up for heat like this...

How have others experienced it, or what are your services doing? Southerners, do we need some thicker skin?

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I am in GA but originally from CT....The heat down here is a whole different ball game. They don't just have heat down here, they have the infamous "Humidity". Some days when you walk outside the air is so thick you feel like you can't breath. Summers in CT, as I remember them, had more of a dry heat....sorry if this makes absolutely no sense. A lot of people, especially in the less fortunate communities around here, don't have AC in their homes (imagine that) personally, I would die without AC. I remember the heat wave warnings we used to have in CT warning people to stay inside, here in GA, people are out mowing their lawns and sitting on their porches in the middle of the day...SMH

 

[STXmedic]

, people are out mowing their lawns and sitting on their porches in the middle of the day...SMH

LoL I intentionally plan my runs or bike rides for the hottest part of the day (usually a heat index between 100 & 110)

Just like cold, it just takes some acclimation. A HUGE portion of our city lacks any kind of AC, and we still don't make all that many heat related deaths.