On Monday, temperatures in Phoenix reached a high of 108 degrees, unceremoniously breaking a streak of 31 days straight in which blistering temperatures hit at least 110 degrees.
For weeks, patients burnt by the baking pavement and floored by heat exhaustion have flooded Arizona hospitals. More than 1,000 calls came into Phoenix's 911 system for heat-related illness in July alone. And for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office enlisted 10 trailer-sized refrigerated containers to accommodate a possible overflow of heat-related deaths., tennis courts, playgrounds and hiking trails sit abandoned in the daytime.
"The air takes your breath away," he said, recounting nights that soared beyond 100 degrees."It burns the back of your throat in a minute." Scheinert recounted a member who stumbled inside with a core body temperature of 104 degrees."It was immediately diagnosed as heat stroke," Scheinert said."The crazy thing is that when you're at that high temperature, your body does not sweat. So it's easy not to identify it. But luckily we have a nurse that knows what she's doing, and we called EMS." , heat stroke can begin as the body's core temperature rises above 103 degrees.
This image shows how the temperature can differ between rural, industrial, downtown, park and suburban areas on the same day. "That's concerning because the human body needs for it to be 85 degrees Fahrenheit roughly or cooler to cool down at night," said Guardaro."If you don't have access to air conditioning in a place like metropolitan Phoenix, you are compromising your health. I mean, it is dangerous.
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