LOUISVILLE, KY. (WDRB) -- The dog days of summer will hit Kentuckiana by the end of the week, and several things are being done to protect people from the heat.
The kind of heat we're expecting can be and has been deadly. That's why people are being encouraged to take every precaution, especially when children are involved.
This year, there have already been several heat related deaths involving children in the U.S. There have even been a few here in Kentuckiana.
That's why the Exploited Children's Help Organization or ECHO held a demonstration Tuesday. The purpose was to show people the dangers of leaving children in hot cars, and to offer a few tips such as leaving something you'll need next to your child.
ECHO volunteer Suzanne Sturgeon explains, "You think about what you need to do when you get out of the car, I mean for a female not to have a purse is a petty big deal. And you know, maybe your phone next to the sleeping child, the baby in the car could help you think before you get out of the car."
And children are not the only ones at risk in the extreme heat. A roof might be the last place anyone should be when temperatures hit the triple digits later this week.
"When it gets a hundred degrees outside I don't want nobody on the roof," says Keith Booker, Owner KLB Property Maintenance.
Booker has crews working across the city. They're replacing roofs and doing landscaping. The goal is to get most of it done before the end of the week.
Booker says, "Some jobs we had scheduled for later this week we are doing today because the temperatures are supposed to raise up so high."
The company has a full workload but says if it doesn't get done in the next 24 hour...it'll have to wait. "We're not going to be up there when it gets to be 100...it's going to be too hot Thursday and Friday for anybody to be out on the roof," says Booker.
Temperatures are expected to climb into the triple digits on Thursday and Friday...so the city has a couple of cool ideas.
"If people find themselves in a situation where their home is too hot...there are lots of places they can go," says Phil Miller, with the mayor's office.
That includes public libraries and one of several spray parks across the city. And Miller says, "I think our pools and spray grounds will be just absolutely packed over the next few days."
Meanwhile, the Community Action Partnership was giving away air conditioners but the program ended on Friday. That's after an overwhelming response from the public.
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