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Speaker 1: One of two point seven. You're on Kiss FM, Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: It's Ryan Seacrest with you. More hot temperatures again today

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Speaker 1: with every summer. I mean, we've been doing this a

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Speaker 1: long time. I remember when we would broadcast the high

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Speaker 1: temperatures and they would be in the nineties and pushing

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Speaker 1: just one hundred, and we would think that was just

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Speaker 1: just crazy, like, how can it be one hundred? And

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Speaker 1: now we're talking about one hundred and eleven and maybe

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Speaker 1: even hotter in some areas. And if you have to

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Speaker 1: be outside, you have to work outside. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if your kids have sporting events outside. It's just it's

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Speaker 1: it's unhealthy, but it's also it's so draining and physically painful.

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Speaker 1: I did not know until I was reading the La

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Speaker 1: Times that we have an LA Chief Heat Officer, and

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Speaker 1: I got excited to meet our chief Heat officer, who

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Speaker 1: I'm sure is very busy, but found a few minutes

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Speaker 1: for us today.

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Speaker 2: Mart Are you there, Marta Segura? How are you?

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Ryan, Good to meet you.

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Speaker 2: Good to meet you. Okay, what does it mean to

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Speaker 2: be the chief heat officer here in LA?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? For me to be the chief heat officer, it

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Speaker 3: means I want to and the city has a responsibility

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Speaker 3: to significant, significantly reduce deaths and hospitalizations caused by heat

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Speaker 3: waves and this triple digit weather. But also these dangers

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Speaker 3: are caused by sudden increases in temperature, and as you

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Speaker 3: were saying, Ryan, it's really dangerous for people to be

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Speaker 3: out there without planning, without protection, and so we want

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Speaker 3: to make sure that everybody knows what to do and

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Speaker 3: how to plan ahead. So really extreme heat costs for

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Speaker 3: extreme solutions, not just common sense like looking for a

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Speaker 3: shady spot. We want people to have access to water.

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Speaker 3: We want people to have access to shade and air

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Speaker 3: conditioned facilities to recover from extreme heat exhaustion, or even

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Speaker 3: if you're just feeling really faint or tired, we encourage

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Speaker 3: you to get some rest, make sure you're under shade,

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Speaker 3: and drink a lot of water. And when you're drinking alcohol,

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Speaker 3: coffee and soda, just remember that de hydrates you. So

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Speaker 3: overcompensate by having two glasses of water for every eight

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Speaker 3: ousands of soda.

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Speaker 1: So two for one, got two for one. R LA

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Speaker 1: Chief Officer, what's a drinking Wait? Could you explain something

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Speaker 1: to me because this is interesting. There are rebates on

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Speaker 1: air conditioning units from LADWP. How do people get those?

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Speaker 3: You just go to the cool LA site on LADWP

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Speaker 3: and you can call three one one if you don't

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Speaker 3: want to get on the website and they'll direct you

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Speaker 3: to the phone number where you can access those rebates.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and cooling stations. I did see some had breakdowns

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Speaker 1: and even their air conditioning units, but cooling stations are

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Speaker 1: available too, and you can probably get that information as

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Speaker 1: well in the same places.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and just remember, all libraries, all recon park facilities,

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Speaker 3: any open city building like senior centers, recreation centers are

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Speaker 3: all accessible during extreme heat, but only some are open

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Speaker 3: on Sundays. So for example today, any of our facilities

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Speaker 3: that are open to the public, people can just go

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Speaker 3: there and you can call three one one to find

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Speaker 3: the one closest to So, libraries, rec centers, senior centers,

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Speaker 3: family resource centers are all open to the public.

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Speaker 1: Okay. I was thinking about this and maybe this is

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Speaker 1: part of your agenda. Our LA Chief Heat Officer is

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Speaker 1: on the line now. For those who have to work outside, right,

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Speaker 1: this is your job is to work outside the whole day.

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Speaker 1: How do we protect the workers that have to do that?

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Speaker 1: And is there consideration that that work might be done overnight.

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Speaker 1: I see some places around the world do that.

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Speaker 3: That's right. We encourage employers to change the work schedule

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Speaker 3: to have workers work earlier in the morning before the

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Speaker 3: sun comes out, or also to work at night. And

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Speaker 3: if that's unavoidable for whatever reason, we encourage more breaks,

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Speaker 3: far more water, and also consider shortening the workday to

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Speaker 3: protect the life and health of your workers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and also I mean life health.

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Speaker 1: And you can't be productive when you're feeling a certain

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Speaker 1: way outside.

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Speaker 2: You just can't get it done.

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Speaker 1: So and where where every summer mark to every summer,

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Speaker 1: it's worse and worse. What are the big grand things

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Speaker 1: that we're doing to help mitigate this increased heat?

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Speaker 3: That's right for the city of la is trying to

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Speaker 3: create a more heat adapted city. So that means we're

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Speaker 3: planting more trees where we need them, we are creating

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Speaker 3: more shade structures, We're putting more hydration stations. We have

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Speaker 3: a ten year plant for more bus shelters because we

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Speaker 3: want people to stay active, to take public transportation, to

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Speaker 3: continue going to work and school. And in addition to that,

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Speaker 3: we are creating a water recycling facility to ensure that

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Speaker 3: we can use local water, not just import water from

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Speaker 3: the Colorado River, etc. So our shared public infrastructure is

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Speaker 3: really important. So we're investing in that our built environments,

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Speaker 3: for example home electrification and building electrifications to reduce greenhouse

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Speaker 3: gas emissions, but also putting more cool roofs and heat pumps,

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Speaker 3: and encouraging people to take advantage of the rebates that

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Speaker 3: the Department of Water and Power offers or the Southern

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Speaker 3: California Edison offers. And we want to make sure that

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Speaker 3: we expand the social infrastructure with our heat relief campaigns.

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Speaker 3: We have over one hundred organizations that are helping us

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Speaker 3: spread the news about how to stay safe, prepare and

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Speaker 3: protect yourself and your family. So we want to make

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Speaker 3: sure that you and others are helping us share this

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Speaker 3: information and that takes all of us. We want to

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Speaker 3: make sure that you take care of those and your

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Speaker 3: family that are more vulnerable, like the elders, children, those

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Speaker 3: that have autoimmune disease or chronic illnesses. Make sure to

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Speaker 3: give them extra steps and protection to stay safe this summer.

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Speaker 1: Well, I want you to know to the point of

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Speaker 1: and obviously thinking as we say, with the point of

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Speaker 1: helping get word out.

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Speaker 2: We're here every day, so.

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Speaker 1: Anything you need, you know, we want to make sure

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Speaker 1: that we can be a good conduit to convey that

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Speaker 1: information and keep people healthy and safe during these crazy

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Speaker 1: heat waves. So Chief Heat Officer Marcus Sigura, thank you

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Speaker 1: and consider us an ally.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much. We really appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: You take good care, and I bet you love the

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Speaker 2: holidays winter.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's so much better time for me.

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Speaker 2: Okay, take care. You just must be thrilled.

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Speaker 1: It just to be December first, all right, today's sign

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Speaker 1: Anaheim's gonna be eighty seven. I got Disneyland tickets, Sinnaheim next,