Garcia, patrol agent in charge of the Ajo Station. “Arizona’s west desert is the most dangerous place to cross the southwest border, and this intense heat only increases the chances for tragedy,” said Joel D. Agents have also encountered human remains. Border Patrol reported that during the first three weeks of July it had received 151 calls for help and rescued more than 1,100 migrants in the sweltering desert near the U.S.-Mexico border. The Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating. The Yuma County medical examiner said the death was heat-related, a sheriff’s spokesperson said. The Yuma County Sheriff’s Office said farmworker Dario Mendoza, 26, died after collapsing in the fields July 20 after the high reached 116 F (46.7 C) in the agricultural region.
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Other parts of Arizona, especially the southern Yuma, Pima and Santa Cruz counties, are also seeing dangerous, record high weather that has resulted in deaths, but only Maricopa County releases a weekly online update on heat-associated deaths. WHAT’S HAPPEPNING IN OTHER PARTS OF ARIZONA? “Some cities have a lot less to play with before people are at very high risk for health impacts,” Brady said.Ībout 17,000 residents live in areas of Phoenix where the urban surroundings add at least 10 F (5.6 C) to what they would experience otherwise. In Phoenix, it pushes temperatures to extremes, said Jen Brady, research manager with Climate Central and one of the analysis’ authors. WHAT ROLE DOES THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT PLAY IN PHOENIX?Īn analysis published Wednesday says Phoenix would be consistently 7 F (3.9 C) cooler, every day and night, if not for the heat created by the city’s built environment, also known as the heat island effect. More than half of the deaths occurred in July in what was the hottest summer on record - a record that is likely to be broken this year. By this spring, that number had grown to 425, the current number, as more deaths that were under investigation were confirmed as heat-associated. “This is for a couple reasons: 1) the deaths are reported from multiple sources and may not come in to Public Health right away, and 2) these deaths sometimes take a while to go from a suspect case to a confirmed case.”įor instance, toxicological tests that can takes weeks or months after an autopsy is conducted could eventually result in many deaths listed as under investigation being changed to confirmed.Īn example of this was seen in last year’s numbers.Īt the end of last year, Maricopa County had reported there were 378 heat-associated deaths confirmed for all of 2022. “We will likely not have a complete count of deaths resulting from this heat wave for some time,” Singh said in a written statement. Sonia Singh, supervisor with the Maricopa County Public Health Department’s communications office, said the update means only “that seven additional deaths were confirmed in that time frame, not necessarily that they occurred in that time frame.”
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