Excessive Heat Emergency Response Plan
- Abstract
The purpose of this plan is to provide information and to identify the DHHS role in response to excessive heat emergencies in the State in collaboration with the NR Public Health Regions and with other State agencies, and in accordance with the National Incident Management Systems. The plan includes the threshold for response activation, a description of heat indicies and associatd health risks, response activities by heat emergency phase, and criteria for colling centers. It also includes templates for an extreme heat press release, hotline script, health alert message, and heat fact sheet.
- Resource Type
- Report
- Author
- State of New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
- Date
- August 2011
- Institution
- State of New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
- Health and Human Impact
- Heat illness/extreme temperature
- Solution
- Disaster preparedness
- Region
- Northeast