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Community workers provide water, medical assistance, and transportation support to vulnerable residents during an extreme heat emergency.
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From Cooling Centers to Community Lifelines: Rethinking Heat Response for Vulnerable Residents

In Southern California, extreme heat is rarely an abstract future risk. It is something residents experience through the heat radiating from pavement, the strain of an air conditioner running for…

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Community members receive water, shade, and wellness checks in a public park being used as a resilience hub during a crisis.
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Parks as Resilience Infrastructure: Why Public Spaces Matter During Crisis

When communities think about disaster infrastructure, they often imagine fire stations, hospitals, emergency operations centers, bridges, power grids, evacuation routes, and communication systems. Those assets are essential. Yet one of…

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Families cool off at a seaside splash pad under hazy orange skies during an extreme heat event.
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Extreme Heat as a Mass-Care Emergency: Why Cooling Centers Are Not Enough

Abstract Extreme heat is often treated as a public-information problem: issue an alert, open cooling centers, advise residents to hydrate, and wait for the weather to pass. The current U.S.…

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