“Ninety degrees is not a day at the beach — it is a breaking point, one that nearly every community can expect to reach in the weeks, months and years ahead,” Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas said in his recent remarks. “The [Department of Homeland Security] workforce and our partners across the Administration, will continue to be there in your community’s moments of need. But mitigating the impacts of such extreme heat requires all of us, across every level of government and throughout the private sector, to work together closely and to strategically invest now in preparedness and resilience.”
Read the full press release from FEMA.