{"id":216387,"date":"2026-06-11T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/216387\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:02:09","slug":"heat-health-emergency-issued-in-philadelphia-on-first-day-of-fifa-fan-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/216387\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat health emergency issued in Philadelphia on first day of FIFA Fan Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Health officials in Philadelphia are declaring a heat health emergency on Thursday as temperatures soar into the 90s.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency is in effect from 11 a.m. Thursday to 8 p.m. Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The dangerous heat settles in as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/fifa-fan-festival-philadelphia-parking-transit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FIFA Fan Festival opens at Lemon Hill<\/a> at 2 p.m. Thursday. Two large tents with fans and misters are set up at the festival for those looking for relief from the heat. There are also water stations on festival grounds and tables in shaded areas. <\/p>\n<p>For those walking to the festival from Center City, four shaded hospitality hubs are available along the way with water and misting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur message is really to folks to know your body,\u201d said Deputy Philadelphia Health Commissioner James Garrow. \u201cKnow what it is that you can take. And if you are in one of those higher-risk groups, there\u2019s really no harm in taking those extra precautions. If nothing else, it could help save your life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials are urging people to hydrate as best as they can and avoid prolonged exposure to the sun and heat. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone who\u2019s sweating profusely. If they\u2019re getting confused, if they can\u2019t catch their breath, if they feel like their heart is pounding \u2014 all of these are potentially dangerous symptoms,\u201d Garrow said. <\/p>\n<p>Cooling centers will be open with extended hours across Philadelphia. View a map of all cooling centers <a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/8d7b658a9fca4a78bac2c385d117a031?mc_cid=e8ebf15dff&amp;mc_eid=2b28961530\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are libraries and recreation centers, older adult centers, even some community organizations are opening their doors,\u201d said Garrow. \u201cAnd these are all places that have air conditioning, are free to drop in. Stop by for a few minutes, a couple hours. Whatever it takes to help cool yourself off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials throughout the region are also encouraging people to check on their family members, friends and neighbors who are older or in other higher-risk groups. <\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Corporation for Aging Heatline (215-765-9040), which is staffed with city health department nurses, is open from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on both Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s Office of Homeless Services declared a Code Red that coincides with the heat health emergency. The office encourages those who come across people sleeping or living outside to call the Homeless Street Outreach Hotline at 215-232-1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Health officials in Philadelphia are declaring a heat health emergency on Thursday as temperatures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35226,83493,32817,69,71,70,1133],"class_list":["post-216387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-city-of-philadelphia","tag-fifa-fan-festival","tag-heat","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}