As unusually hot weather continues beating down on Metro Vancouver, officials are trying to provide relief to residents.

Municipal buildings around Vancouver began sporting “Extreme Heat Cooling Centre” signs on Tuesday, offering their air-conditioned interiors to anyone looking to escape the heat. City workers have also attached temporary water fountains to fire hydrants in high-traffic areas.

The goal is to avoid a repeat of what happened to Curtis Brick, a homeless man who died of heat exposure in Grandview Park in 2009.

“We learned a lot from the death of Mr. Curtis Brick,” Vancouver City Coun. Kerry Jang told CTV News Tuesday. “From that, every year now, as soon as we have any whiff of heat, we get our water carts out. Our outreach teams go out scouring the street for anybody in distress.”

Union Gospel Mission hands out sunscreen and water bottles to homeless people who don't have shelter to go to to escape the sun.

The charity is running low on supplies and is asking for donations of sunscreen, water bottles and hats to hand out, said UGM's Keela Keeping.

“It can get a bit dangerous not being able to find shelter and being stuck out in the sun," she said.

The ongoing heat wave led Metro Vancouver to issue an air quality advisory for the region on Monday. Tuesday morning, it warned infants and the elderly in eastern Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley to stay indoors during the mid-afternoon to avoid ground-level ozone that can make some people wheeze and have shortness of breath.

Metro Vancouver cancelled the air quality advisory shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday. It said air quality had improved as temperatures cooled slightly.

It’s not just the Lower Mainland that is suffering from a heat wave. Fire risk has spiked as a result of hot and dry conditions throughout British Columbia, and globally, April, May, and June had the hottest average temperatures since records began in the 1800s.

The hot weather isn’t all bad, though. Sharon Myers and her grandson Jayden went swimming at the Hillcrest Community Centre pool to cool off. They said they love hot, sunny days.

“I'm born and raised in Vancouver,” Sharon Myers said. “We can never get enough sunshine.”