Your Chance To Live: Heat Wave (1973)

[Music] [Music] enter the sun whose warmth reaches out across space providing the delicate balance which makes life possible enter man whose Frailty as a creature of temperature is too often overlooked [Music] [Music] [Music] and here comes the weather report but believe me it won't be news it's just like the one for yesterday the day before that temperatures in excess of 100° are expected to continue for at least the next hey Eric hey man what hey I got me some great idea why don't we go down to school and play some basketball can't you just sit still didn't you hear the man just say it was over 100 nothing's moving maybe 100 just maybe but let's go you got to work on your left anyway okay let me fill the thermos with some water water what do you need water for you're young come on you're going to have to learn to discipline yourself if you want to be a ball player besides you can do without it if I can maybe you can do without it when my body says drink I want a drink you think taking the drink is copping out yeah you're nuts I know but it's too hot out here and you know what this heat can do to you I never felt better in my life that's what you're going to say the day you die is that you've never felt better in your life well I never have felt better in my life I won't work too hard I'll just put it around a little bit the thing is you shouldn't be out here at all in this heat you know what the doctor said why don't you come in and sit down and relax cuz I don't want to heat is just a state of the mind I won't be out here too long anyway okay you'll be sorry you know how sick you get in this heat so please just take it easy oh you sound like my mother [Music] conversion has trapped some pretty stagnant air here and it's not likely to move on for a while if you've got a respiratory or heart condition get someplace cool and stay there even if you think you're too young and strong to be affected by extreme weather youth does not have a corner on doing the wrong thing when it comes to reacting the temperatures and humidity that are very high for a long time the old The Young and the middle-aged can all understand the danger they can see or feel a tornado or an earthquake for instance but when it comes to something like heat they sometimes don't take it seriously they should for man can live comfortably naturally only within very limited parameters of temperature anything beyond those param if not compensated for can cause illness or death what is so tragic about most people who get sick or die from strenuous activity in great heat or humidity or just long exposure to it is that it can be so easily avoided some people of course have to work out of doors when it's hot but these people usually know how to prevent loss of strength cramps exhaustion or stroke that heat can bring on they know enough to wear light clothes to drink water to take salt tablets to stay away from heavy Foods it's those people who don't have to be out in the heat those people who insist on testing themselves against the Heat who generally wind up in trouble [Music] temperature is 98° it is expected to go over 100° later in the day the record high for the state recorded in 1935 has already been topped reports reaching our Newsroom indicate an increasing number of people who suffer from respiratory or heart condition are being severely and adversely affected by the continuing heat humidity and bad air the national weather service does not expect to break in the heat for at least 3 days [Music] [Music] wait minut man huh I'm tired tired yeah I'm tired yeah man what's the matter I'm just tired I'm going go over there and sit down take a rest oh man the point is that very few people have to be trapped by the heat they have Alternatives the trouble is that they don't use them they can get where it's cool out of the sun indoors they can relax take it easy but all too often they don't and if they must go out they can be careful to replace their bodies depleted liquids by drinking water but too often they don't [Music] [Music] [Music] oh man it hurt it hurt hey man get up get up man come on hop over to the hop over to the gra come on come on man you all right man come on it hurts go over it I don't down heat takes its toll its effects build up over hours and days strenuous activity and high temperatures cause sweating and sweating dries out your body and drains it of the salt it needs this kind of activity regardless of the physical condition of the person involved can lead to painful muscle spasms first one out you all right it still hurts a little bit come on man I think we better Jam for most people listening to the warning sign sent out by their own body will stand them in good stead during times of extreme heat sapped energy means slow down relax being thirsty means drink being very hot means get where it's [Music] cool oh my God what happened to you oh honey honey I told you not to go outside it was too hot oh my to take the doctor told him to take it easy know right you may not be able to do anything about the heat except try to avoid it and in the long run that's the very best thing you can do [Music] [Music] folks we just got this latest weather report in from the National Weather Service forget all earlier reports it's a new record for this day new high it's 105° still climbing [Music]