City and county leaders are sharing messages on heat safety, and promise more are to come.

At a press conference Monday morning, leaders including Mayor Kirk Watson and Travis County Judge Andy Brown spoke about how the city is handling the heat wave.

‘They sound like basic common sense, but the experience with heat is people sometimes think, well, I can beat the heat, it's something that I'll be able to get through this. But with this heat and this humidity, it's dangerous,” said Mayor Watson.

Austin-Travis County EMS Chief Robert Luckritz shared that since April they’ve seen 166 heat related incidents, with 88 of them occurring within the last two weeks.

Luckritz said Tuesday they treated someone who was unconscious after experiencing heat related illness.

“Signs of heat exhaustion include profuse sweating, dizziness, weakness, pale or clammy skin, a fast weak pulse, nausea or vomiting,” said Luckritz.

Many officials shared similar messages on the need to stay safe in the heat and being aware of symptoms.

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“My mama always said if you heard something more than three times it must be true. So a lot of the messages that you hear today will be repeated and because we believe that is the best, true, and accurate information we can offer our public to stay safe,” said Austin Public Health Director Adrienne Sturrup

Austin remains under a weather watch from ERCOT, which is one of the alerts they send out, but doesn’t indicate emergency conditions. A more sensitive alert went out Tuesday, calling for voluntary conservation. As part of the notice, ERCOT also requested that all government agencies including city and county offices reduce their energy usage.

Stuart Riley, the interim chief operating officer for Austin Energy says that locally, the county and city buildings complied.

“We inform all of our partners at city facilities and we take measures,” said Riley,

“Lowering unnecessary lighting, raising the temperature a little bit on the thermostats, just to be a part of that and participate in that energy conservation.”

Right now, the outlook for the grid and local utilities looks good and sunny, but in thousands of Austinites have briefly lost power in recent weeks. Riley says the they have crews ready to assist this summer.

“At this point, you know, we have crews on standby. We have crews in the field at all times and we're ready to respond,” said Riley, “Every outage that we get on our system, big or small is an urgent matter.”