Assesssing Risks and Impacts of Simultaneous Extreme Heat & Power Outage in 3 Cities - Instrumentation

3Heat is a NSF-funded study of extreme heat and large-scale power outage. 3Heat incorporates multi-scale simulation accompanied by survey and interview data with residents and emergency management professionals in the Phoenix, AZ area to assess the impact of a simultaneous heat wave and power outage on human health. Due to privacy concerns, this repository contains interview instrumentation, a methodology overview, a project description, and a qualitative analysis codebook. Scenario-based interviews about simultaneous extreme heat and power outage were conducted in English and Spanish with 42 residents in Phoenix. 18 additional interviews were conducted with practitioner stakeholders who might be tasked with responding to a combined extreme heat and power outage event, such as emergency managers, public health officials, public administrators, first responders, and community-based organization leaders. The interview protocol and qualitative analysis codebook were designed to explore respondents’ assessment of personal and general health risk, their estimate of health, economic, and physical impacts to the metro area, and their personal and professional adaptations and responses to the hypothetical event. The instruments here are non-specific to Arizona and may be adapted to other settings for use by researchers, emergency managers, or other disaster management professionals. For detailed presentation and discussion of project results, please see related works. The project is jointly supported by research teams from Arizona State University, the University of Michigan, and the Georgia Institute of Technology.