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‘Contact burns’ from hot surfaces lead to hospitalizations, some deaths

Erin Murphy Cronkite News//July 6, 2023//

heat-related illness, Maricopa County, homeless, elderly, contact burns

Arizona Burn Center officials are warning about roads and surfaces that get blistering hot – literally – in the summer sun, after many years in which contact burns resulted in scores of hospital admissions.(File photo by Jordan Evans/Cronkite News)

‘Contact burns’ from hot surfaces lead to hospitalizations, some deaths

Erin Murphy Cronkite News//July 6, 2023//

Arizona Burn Center officials are warning about roads and surfaces that get blistering hot – literally – in the summer sun, after several years in which contact burns resulted in...

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