Extreme Heat Toolkit

Dear Community Organizations,

Thank you for helping keep Polk County residents safe during the extremely hot and humid summer days. We greatly appreciate your support! To ensure our residents’ safety during extreme heat, we have developed a tool kit for your organization to utilize:

Safety Posters/Handouts

• Heat safety posters providing general heat tips to place around your organization (posters are 11 by 17) in
  • English - It's Hot and English - It's Dangerously Hot
  • Spanish - It's Hot and Spanish - It's Dangerously Hot
• Poster - Extreme Heat and Your Body English/Spanish
• Poster - How to stay cool this summer (posters are 11 by 17) in:
• Arabic
• Bosnian
• Chin – Hakah Dialect
• Chin – Mizo Dialect
• Chin – Falam Dialect
• English
• Kinyarwanda
• Spanish
• Swahili 
• Tigringa
• Informational handouts on how to keep yourself and clients safe during extreme weather conditions in English and Spanish.
• Do not leave pets/kid poster PDF and JPEG

Safety Messages 

• Three extreme heat messages to put in a newsletter, bulletins or announcements in English/Spanish.

Safety Practices Parents and Kids

• Extreme heat toolkit for kids

Medication Safety

• Information about how medications can affect the body’s response to extreme heat conditions in English/Spanish.
• Medcation safety in cars poster PDF and JPEG

Pet Safety

• A handout on how to keep pets safe during extreme heat weather conditions in English/Spanish.
• Do not leave pets/kid poster PDF and JPEG