 Connecticut's municipalities typically run cooling centers on their own. Those are activated with the state's extreme hot weather protocol. Bill Turner is the state's emergency management director, which organizes that effort. He says cities and towns, not statewide alerts on your phone, spread the word about cooling centers and other ways to beat the heat. We try to reserve use of a statewide alert for those situations where there's really some sort of life-threatening emergency that we need to get a message out with.