Segura's responsibilities will including overseeing emergency response for 'extreme heat events' by implementing a Heat Action Plan.
The City of Los Angeles appointed its first-ever Chief Heat Officer during a press conference Friday morning.
Los Angeles now joins other major American metropolises like Phoenix and Miami with an officer who will"oversee the City's response to extreme heat events," as detailed by a city press release. "Most of our low-income rentals don't come with AC, or much less air-filtration systems," Segura said at the appointment ceremony."We're going to be approaching that more systemically by looking at our building codes and we're going to be creating a climate vulnerability assessment that's going to give us very accurate data across the City of Los Angeles, to create that Heat Action Plan.
David Eisenman, a specialist in public health with the UCLA School of Medicine, also spoke at Friday's event where he said,"On any day with extreme heat, emergency rooms in Los Angeles see an additional one-thousand five-hundred patients. We estimate an additional sixteen people die on a single day of heat in Los Angeles County, and that by the fifth day of a heat wave there are 40 extra deaths that day.
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