A heat wave earlier this month brought temperatures of up to 114 degrees -- and it’s only June.
The ranks of homeless have swelled after the pandemic and temperatures fueled by climate change soar. – Hundreds of blue, green and grey tents are pitched under the sun’s searing rays in downtown Phoenix, a jumble of flimsy canvas and plastic along dusty sidewalks. Here, in the hottest big city in America, thousands of homeless people swelter as the summer’s triple digit temperatures arrive.
Around the country, heat contributes to some 1,500 deaths annually, and advocates estimate about half of those people are homeless. Last summer, a heat wave blasted the normally temperate U.S. Northwest and had Seattle residents sleeping in their yards and on roofs, or fleeing to hotels with air conditioning. Across the state, several people presumed to be homeless died outdoors, including a man slumped behind a gas station.with water and popsicles to homeless encampments on Portland’s outskirts.
Emergency service workers on bicycles patrol Madrid’s streets, distributing ice packs and water in the hot months. Still, some 1,300 people, most of them elderly, continue to die in Spain each summer because of health complications exacerbated by excess heat.Spain and southern France last week sweltered through unusually hot weather for mid-June, with temperatures hitting 104 degrees in some areas.
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