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PHOENIX (AP) — Hundreds of blue, green and grey tents are pitched under the sun’s...

“If 130 homeless people were dying in any other way it would be considered a mass casualty event,” said Kristie L. Ebi, a professor of global health at the University of Washington.

Hundreds of blue, green and grey tents are pitched under the sun's searing rays in downtown Phoenix, a jumble of flimsy canvas and plastic along dusty side

Hundreds of blue, green and grey tents are pitched under the sun’s searing rays in downtown Phoenix, a jumble of flimsy canvas and plastic along dusty sidewalks. Here, in the hottest big city in America, thousands of homeless people swelter as the summer’s triple digit temperatures arrive.

Hundreds of homeless people die in the streets each year from the heat, in cities around the U.S. and the world.

Hundreds of homeless people die in the streets each year from the heat, in cities around the U.S. and the world.

PHOENIX (AP) — Hundreds of blue, green and grey tents are pitched under the sun’s...

Excessive heat causes more weather-related deaths in the United States than hurricanes, flooding and tornadoes combined.

PHOENIX -- Hundreds of blue, green and grey tents are pitched under the suns searing rays in downtown Phoenix, a jumble of flimsy canvas and plastic along dusty sidewalks. Here,

The stifling tent city has ballooned amid pandemic-era evictions and surging rents that have dumped hundreds more people onto the sizzling streets that grow eerily quiet when temperatures peak in the midafternoon. A heat wave earlier this month brought temperatures of up to 114 degrees (45.5 Celsius) - and it’s only June. Highs reached 118 degrees (47.7 Celsius) last year.