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PHOENIX (AP) Paramedics summoned to an Arizona retirement community last summer found an 80-year-old woman slumped inside her mobile home, enveloped in the suffocating 99-degree (37 C) heat she suffered
Heat dangers are becoming familiar nationwide as global warming creates new challenges to protect the aged.
Paramedics summoned to an Arizona retirement community last summer found an 80-year-old woman slumped inside her mobile home, enveloped in the suffocating 99-degree (37 C) heat she suffered for days after her air conditioner broke down. Efforts to revive her failed, and her death was ruled environmental heat exposure aggravated…
A 2021 study estimates more than a third of U.S. heat deaths each year can be attributed to human-caused global warming.
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