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Sep 29, 2023

‘Like a frying pan’: Extreme heat overwhelms Phoenix’s unhoused community

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.

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