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How to avoid heatstroke and heat exhaustion

Elderly people are at higher risk because they tend not to feel thirst the way younger people do.

An unidentified man blocks the sun from his eyes as he looks west toward Filbert Street from the north side of Broad Street earlier this week.
An unidentified man blocks the sun from his eyes as he looks west toward Filbert Street from the north side of Broad Street earlier this week.Read moreALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / Staff Photographer