Extreme heat is far deadlier than other natural disasters killing on average more than twice as many people each year as hurricanes and tornadoes combined according to data tracked by the National Weather Service . Despite this heat isnt on the list of disasters eligible for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency because its nowhere in the Stafford Act . Congress adding it to that official list from Congress would clarify FEMAs role in addressing heat . Heat is a creeping disaster unlike a hurricane or tornado it lingers instead of rolling in and out of a place quickly. And heat takes a toll on humans more than it does on infrastructure. We essentially just dont have the governance structures in place to deal with heat in the same way we deal with wildfires and hurricanes. We dont have a good way of even capturing how many people are unwell in a particular heatwave. We need to create those structures quickly, says University of Arizona professor and heat response expert Ladd Keith . The entire nation is unprepared for the summer event where the void where the event where he heard from Phoenix and San Antonio mayors Biden announced he was asking the Department of Labor to ramp up its job as well as new funding to help improve forecasting our country’s weather forecasts . The Biden administration has announced several federal initiatives to help with the heat. This is the most focused in our country’s weather forecasts. We don’t have a bad way. We’ve got a very long way to go. It’ll need to help our weather. Wedon’re trying to help the weather. It is a very important. We have a very good way. It has a very bad way’. It will be a very serious climate. I’m asking the
Extreme heat is the deadliest natural disaster. FEMA can’t treat it like one . Extreme
