Heat

An average of nearly 3,000 people in Louisiana are hospitalized or treated in the emergency department annually due to heat-related illness

Athletes in Louisiana are heading back to the playing fields to try out, practice and condition for fall school sports. Many of them could face being injured and the American Red Cross has ways that coaches can help keep players safe in hot weather and training available to teach students and coaches what they should do if someone is hurt.

Dr. Travis Smith joins us to talk about heat related illness, treatment, and prevention.

In the dog days of summer after the fresh-split firewood reeking with the sweet acerbity of tannin is stacked in a neat pile close by the house, we become…

A Heat Advisory will be in effect through 7 pm today across the Four State Region which will include Southeast Oklahoma, Southwest and South Central…