EMSA heat alert is Oklahoma's earliest on record
Central Oklahoma is sweating out the earliest heat alert on record.
The season's first heat alert began Sunday after an ambulance raced an overheated metro-area mother and baby to a hospital, hitting the Emergency Medical Services Authority heat alert benchmark of at least five heat-related calls over 24 hours.
Until Sunday, the earliest alerts issued were on June 19, 2002, and June 23, 2009.
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