Guilford County EMS sees uptick in heat-related calls

VIDEO: The excessive heat is bringing an uptick in heat-related calls for the Guilford County Emergency Services. FOX8 met up with Scott Muthersbaugh with Guilford County EMS on Tuesday. Within minutes, EMS was already on a heat-related call. โ€œThat gentleman was outside working and started to feel overheated and got close to the point of feeling like he was going to potentially pass out. Some of his co-workers did exactly the right thing and said, โ€˜Hey, letโ€™s all take a break,โ€ Muthersbaugh said. By 2:30 p.m., things really started to pick up.ย FOX8 rode along on a heat-related call. โ€œA gentleman was out and started to feel overheated, so he went inside, and our crew went out to evaluate him. While weโ€™re on the south side of town and working on going to this one, thereโ€™s actually another heat-related call that just dropped on the north side of town, where someone was on a trail and started to feel hot, too. Weโ€™re definitely starting to see that trend upwards,โ€ Muthersbaugh said.

WGHP-TV FOX 8 Greensboro

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