Canadians pack into cooling centers as heat wave death toll doubles
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01/07/2021 - 03:32 A welcoming sign is seen on the door of the Hillcrest Community Centre, where people can cool off during the extreme hot weather in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Don MacKinnon AFP 3 min
Vancouver (AFP)
Inside one of Vancouver s 25 air-conditioned cooling centers on Wednesday, visitors quietly read books or worked on laptops as the death toll in Canada s British Columbia province rose into the hundreds from a record-smashing heat wave. We ve had heat waves before, but not to this extent, said Lou, who provided only her first name. I m shocked by how many deaths there have been.
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