Ottawa residents were trying their best to keep cool under dangerous conditions on Sunday, with temperatures making it feel like 40 degrees.
Places like the Ottawa Mission are coming to the rescue by providing some much-needed relief
"That basically absorbs the heat and makes the surfaces much hotter and they re-emit the heat so overnight. It could be 12 degrees hotter in urban settings than other areas," said Joanna Eyquem, managing director of Climate Resilient Infrastructure at Intact Centre at the University of Waterloo. "Our worry is when we see someone asleep on the sidewalks," said Ottawa Mission CEO Peter Tilley. "If you see someone laid out on a lawn especially in the downtown area on the sidewalk just go up stand over them and ask if they’re okay."
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