(File Photo of the Duquesne Light Company Logo)<\/p>\n
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News<\/p>\n
(Pittsburgh, PA) The temperatures of extreme heat continue this\u00a0week\u00a0and Duquesne Light Company is providing tips to stay cool.\u00a0Heat that is prolonged\u00a0can put more\u00a0stress on the electric grid even without storms, and Duquesne Light teams are increasing their\u00a0staffs\u00a0and are ready to respond as soon as possible and as\u00a0safely\u00a0as\u00a0possible if\u00a0there are outages.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Duquesne Light Company recommends these tips to prepare for the heat:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Charge phones and essential devices.
\n Stay hydrated and keep ice on hand.
\n Have a basic emergency kit ready.
\n Sign up for outage alerts through your DLC account.<\/p>\n
and if your power is off, they recommend to: \u00a0<\/p>\n
Keep fridge\/freezer doors closed.
\n Use flashlights, not candles.
\n Head to a cooled space if you can.<\/p>\n
They also note to check on your neighbors, especially adults that are older. You can also report outages at duquesnelight.com, the Duquesne Light Company app, or by calling 888-393-7100.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(File Photo of the Duquesne Light Company Logo) Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News (Pittsburgh, PA) The temperatures…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-234081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234081","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=234081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}