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ALT Public awareness image featuring a young child in a car seat with an overlay of a thermometer indicating high heat and text stating 'More than half of all kids who die in hot cars are forgotten.' Background shows a crowded parking lot with various cars.
ALT A graphic showing a car parked in a sunny parking lot, with digital displays indicating an outside temperature of 80 degrees and an inside temperature of 109 degrees, and an elapsed time of 20 minutes.
ALT Infographic showing an icy bridge with a yellow sign that reads "Why do bridges freeze first?"
ALT Pills in background with text overlay: “Fentanyl is commonly mixed with other drugs and made into pills that look like other prescription opioids. National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day”
ALT Heat Exhaustion vs Heat Stroke. Symptoms of heat exhaustion include dizziness, thirst, heavy sweating, nausea, and weakness. Act fast by moving to a cooler area, loosening clothing, sipping cool water. Seek medical help if symptoms don't improve. Heat exhaustion can lead to heat stroke. Symptoms of heat stroke include confusion, dizziness, and unconsciousness. Act fast by calling 911, moving the person to a cooler area, loosening clothing and removing extra layers, and cooling with water or ice. Heat stroke can cause death or permanent disability if emergency treatment is not given.
ALT People kayaking in body of water and wearing life vests.
ALT Cartoon-style graphic of two hands, one reaching in from the left and dropping car keys in an open-palm hand reaching in from the right. The hand on the left (dropping the keys) is reaching through a grey cloud of smoke.