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Los Angeles heat wave: County extends heat alert another day

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A surfer jumps into the water in Venice next to the pier.   (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
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Puffy clouds drift over downtown Los Angeles.   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
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Teri Griffith of Garden Grove wipes her brow and fans herself in the stands before a Los Angeles Angels game in Anaheim.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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A woman carries her shade with her near Nicole Maloney Oomo’s art installation in Little Tokyo.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
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Necmettin Tekin plays in a fountain at Hollywood and Highland complex on the sixth day of a heat wave.   (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
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West Los Angeles College cross-country runner Tawuan Cargill dumps water over his head after running amid high temperatures at the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area.   (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
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Students walk in the shade at Cal State Fullerton during the sixth day of a heat wave.   (Christina House / For the Times)
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Visitors take pictures of one another against clouds at Hollywood and Highland.   (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
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Max Badder soars high in the heat at the Van Nuys Pedlow Skate Park.  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)
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A huge thunderhead dwarfs a sailboat near the Angels Gate entrance to Los Angeles Harbor.   (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
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The Rose Bowl Aquatic swim teams practice in the heat at the Pasadena facility.   (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
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Oswaldo Escobar, of Los Angeles, finds shade while taking in the view of downtown from Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
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The setting suns sets clouds aglow as they pass over the Los Angeles skyline.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
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A youngster walks to school across the railroad tracks at Broadway and Slauson as the early morning sun drenches the roadway at the beginning of another scorcher.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
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The sun sets off the Palos Verdes Peninsula after a day of record-setting hot temperatures throughout Southern California.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
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Brannigan Cheney picks up his son Atlas, 2, after cooling off in the shade on the grounds of the George C. Page Museum in Los Angeles.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
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A construction worker takes a long drink from a insulated jug while taking a break at The Village, under construction at Westfield Topanga in Woodland Hills.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
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A man pumps gasoline at a Canoga Park station where a temperature gauge reads 114 degrees.   (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
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Paddle boaters enjoy the spray from the water fountain on Echo Park Lake.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
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Sign spinner Orlando Reyes points cars to a Thousand Oaks Blvd. massage business under the hot sun.   (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
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Rosalind Goings, 2, joins others playing in the fountain at Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles on Monday.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
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Yoshawn Smith pauses for a minute to take a selfie with his son, Dario Smith, 2, as they play in the Grand Park fountain on Monday.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
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Children in Boyle Heights cool down in a 30-foot blow-up swimming pool at a birthday party on Sunday.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
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Daisy Dukes, a 3-year-old standard poodle, spends the morning cooling down during a surfing lesson at Huntington Dog Beach on Sunday.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
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Sandra Figueroa, left, and her sister Elizabeth try to beat the heat at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena while shopping at the monthly flea market on Sunday.  (Christina House / For The Times)
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A man has a large section of the left field bleachers to himself as the heat kept many away from Angels Stadium for the game against the Houston Astros on Sunday.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
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Stacia Watniarski of Riverside cools off while the Angels play the Houston Astros in Anaheim on Sunday.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
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People get in an early Friday morning workout outside the Pasadena Rose Bowl.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
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Forecasters said relief from the Southern California triple-digit heat wave would arrive Wednesday. Now, they've predicted the misery will be prolonged by at least a day. 

The L.A. County Department of Public Health has extended its heat alert through Wednesday.  Meanwhile, cities in the L.A. area were meeting and beating heat records left and right.

Woodland Hills hit 107 degrees on Sunday, when Burbank reached 101 and El Cajon 102.  Even Laguna Beach was an extra-balmy 89 that day, 2 degrees hotter than its 1928 record of 87.

The county reminds us that -- through Wednesday -- "even a few hours of exertion may cause severe dehydration, heat cramps, heat exhaustion and heat stroke."  Stay hydrated, stay inside, and the elderly and infirm should be in air conditioning between the hours of 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. Here's a map of designated cooling centers.

One semi-bright spot: As of the writing of this post, the National Weather Service's excessive heat warning for the L.A. area was still set to expire Tuesday night. The weather service predicts dangerously hot weather through Tuesday with heat index values of 100 to 110 degrees in the valleys of L.A. and Ventura counties and the Santa Monica Mountains.

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