Arizona's scorching summer kills hundreds and threatens way of life for many more
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🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It has been a deadly summer. Extreme heat from across the country has killed dozens of people. |
| 0:06.0 | The Biden administration recently announced new rules to protect workers and communities from extreme weather, |
| 0:12.0 | but it may not come soon enough. In Maricopa County... and |
| 0:14.0 | in extreme weather, but it may not come soon enough. In Maricopa County, Arizona, which includes Phoenix, |
| 0:17.0 | there have been nearly 450 suspected heat-related deaths this summer. |
| 0:22.0 | Stephanie Cy has this report from the Valley of the Sun. |
| 0:26.0 | Summer steamrolled into Phoenix, fast and furious. |
| 0:29.7 | Noah concluding it's been one of the hottest summers on record and heat has been |
| 0:34.6 | suspected in hundreds of deaths including that of a 10-year-old boy on a hike. |
| 0:39.6 | The outdoors can be dangerous so. At any given time each summer, some 9,500 people are unoused in Maricopa County. |
| 0:47.0 | 49 year old Jerome. 9,500 people are unhoused in Maricopa County. |
| 0:53.6 | 49-year-old Jerome Lee is one of them. |
| 0:56.6 | I mean, my head was dizzy, I had a headache. It's hot over here in Phoenix. |
| 1:05.0 | Lee got a saline IV to rehydrate him. |
| 1:09.0 | He'd been drinking. |
| 1:10.0 | Alcohol can increase the risk of heat illness. We're hoping we can help save some lives |
| 1:15.7 | with the eye dehydration. Hurla Puebla works with the nonprofit organization |
| 1:20.7 | Circle the city which this summer is trying to meet the most vulnerable |
| 1:24.9 | where they are. |
| 1:25.9 | We didn't encounter a lot of patients last year. |
| 1:27.9 | They needed I be hydration, but they didn't want to go to the emergency room. |
| 1:31.0 | They didn't want to leave their belongings behind. |
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