Residents around the Northeast U.S. braced for potentially record-breaking temperatures Sunday as a nearly weeklong hot spell continued.
Around the region, athletic events were shortened or postponed, and cities opened cooling centers and even turned to buses to offer relief from the heat.
"Numerous records highs are forecast to be tied and/or broken today in the Northeast as highs make a run at the century mark" and humidity makes it feel as hot as 105 to 110 degrees Fahrenheit, the weather service said in a forecast discussion. Philadelphia officials extended a heat health emergency declaration through Sunday, sending workers to check on homeless people and knock on the doors of other vulnerable residents. With Health Commissioner Dr. Cheryl Bettigole calling the weather"dangerously hot," the city also opened cooling centers and stationed air-conditioned buses at four intersections for people to cool off.
New York City medical examiners confirmed Sunday that a person had died of heat-related causes but didn't say when or where. The person had heart disease and emphysema, which contributed to the death, the medical examiner's office said.
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