The death certificates of more than 2,300 people who died in the United States last summer mention the effects of excessive heat, the highest number in 45…
Associated Press analysis of federal data shows about 2,300 people in the US died last summer with their death certificates mentioning the effects of excessive heatDavid Hom suffered from diabetes and felt nauseated before he went out to hang his laundry in 108-degree weather, another day in Arizona's record-smashing, unrelenting July heat wave.
Last year, ambulances were dispatched tens of thousands of times after people dropped from the heat. It was relentless and didn't give people a break, especially at night. The heat of 2023 kept coming, and people kept dying. Ebi said in the last few years, the heat “seems like it's coming faster. It seems like it's more severe than we expected."
At least 645 people were killed by the heat in Maricopa County, Arizona, alone, according to the medical examiner's office. People were dying in their cars and especially on the streets, where homelessness, drug abuse and mental illness made matters worse.
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