Here's how to keep cool and stay safe during a heat wave

DENVER — Extreme heat will impact Colorado from Friday through Monday. The National Weather Service has issued heat advisories in Colorado along most of the Interstate 25 corridor, Denver metro area, and eastern plains from 10 a.m.

Friday and continuing through the weekend. Denver is likely to reach 100 degrees on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Monday could also see a high in the upper 90s.

Here’s a guide on how to keep cool and stay safe in the punishing temperatures as the latest heat wave ravaging the country spreads east. WHY IS EXTREME HEAT DANGEROUS? Heat kills more Americans than any other weather event, including tornadoes and flooding, even though most heat-related deaths are preventable through outreach and intervention, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. “Heat is the silent killer.

No one thinks about it,” said Ben Zaitchik, a professor and climate scientist at Johns Hopkins University whose research includes heat waves. "It’s getting hotter just about everywhere.” The body normally cools itself by sweating, but extreme heat can interrupt your ability to do that, potentially leading to heat exhaustion or heat stroke, organ failure or death.

Older adults, young children and people with chronic illnesses like diabetes are most at risk. But that doesn't mean healthy people are immune, said Ashley Ward, director of the Heat Policy Innovation Hub at Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability. The heat can h.