The sizzling weather has stretched into the August long weekend and British Columbians are again being urged to know the signs of heat-related illness and check in on the vulnerable.
Environment Canada first issued a heat warning for much of the province Monday, and it isn’t expected to lift the warning until Tuesday.
Sarah Henderson, scientific director of environmental health services with the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, said there has been a slight uptick in the number of hospital visits.
“Certainly there have been small increases in heat-related illnesses and people going to the emergency rooms for those types of illnesses but nothing like what we saw during the heat dome last year,” Henderson said.
