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Today in Focus

A death at work in the age of extreme heat

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Samira Shackle and Jeff Goodell explain the dangers resulting from extreme heat, and what society can do to mitigate them. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:42.4

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0:57.0

I'm Marie. Hello, thank you so much.

1:02.0

Nari. Nabila will try. Marie. Henry, hello, thank you so much.

1:04.0

Nabila will translate.

1:06.4

I'm writing for The Guardian about...

1:10.5

That's journalist Simira Shackle. She's speaking to a woman called Am-Marie Asavado, who lives in a small city in France called Clermont-Farrand.

1:19.4

Simira was there to report on what is a story of our times, a story about Amare's brother.

1:26.3

Um, yeah, could you tell me a bit about your brother David?

1:32.1

Yes, I'm not. your brother David? At one point, Emory started leafing through photo albums.

1:39.0

In these pictures David has brown hair a wide smile in lots of them he's wearing

1:47.1

silly hats he was obsessed with hats he's often hugging his nieces and nephews his

1:52.4

parents his siblings he's just someone and his

1:53.4

siblings he's just someone who was full of life and loved his family very deeply.

2:00.1

In the summer of 2022 David had just started a new job.

2:05.0

So David had worked all his life in construction,

2:08.0

but he'd had a couple of years of unemployment.

2:11.0

He was hired in Italy on a temporary contract and he was really, really

2:19.1

keen that that contract be extended. I mean it was initially, I think, for a few weeks, but there was the potential for it to be extended. I mean it was initially I think for a few weeks but there was

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