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‘Like a frying pan’: Extreme heat overwhelms Phoenix’s unhoused community
Deanna Pistono Cronkite News//September 29, 2023//[read_meter]
Medical coordinator Monica Rico prepares a blood pressure test for William Taft Cowan Jr. at the Circle the City mobile clinic in Phoenix on Sept. 12, 2023. Those practicing street medicine for the unhoused population in Phoenix see the effects of heat on their patients. As of Sept. 12, the number of confirmed heat-associated deaths in Maricopa County this year had risen to 202, more than the 175 confirmed heat-associated deaths for all of 2022. (Photo by Sam Volante/Cronkite News)
‘Like a frying pan’: Extreme heat overwhelms Phoenix’s unhoused community
Deanna Pistono Cronkite News//September 29, 2023//[read_meter]
Near the intersection of South 11th Avenue and West Jefferson Street in Phoenix, the heat is intense. For those who live along the street in tents and makeshift shelters, this...
