Man found dead in Death Valley amid highest temperature on Earth this year

SF Gate ^ | 7/6/2023 | By Madilynne Medina

[NohSpinZone]

A California man died from extreme heat at Death Valley National Park amid the highest temperature recorded on Earth this year, park officials said.

The 65-year-old man from San Diego was found dead in his vehicle on Monday morning, Abby Wines, a spokesperson for the park, told SFGATE. This came the day after Death Valley reached 126 degrees, the hottest temperature anywhere on the planet in 2023.

A maintenance worker noticed the man’s vehicle just after 10 a.m. Monday about 30 yards away from North Highway, park officials said in a news release. The worker found the man unresponsive, prompting the arrival of park rangers, Inyo County Sheriff’s Office deputies and officials from the county coroner’s office. The man was declared dead at the scene.

Park officials said they believe the man died from a heat-related illness because his vehicle veered only slightly off the road with two flat tires but didn’t crash. Investigators said they believe the driver’s heat-related illness may have caused him to run off the road.

Officials also said the car’s engine was fully functioning and the vehicle wasn’t stuck, but the air conditioning system appeared to be broken. The man’s sedan was found with the window down, which led investigators to believe he didn’t have air conditioning while he was driving, park officials said.

[faucetman]

“Death Valley National Park”

Hint, the name of the park is Death Valley National Park.

[SaveFerris]

Yep

[GingisK]

At night

[old school]

Nailed it!

[SaveFerris]

It’s almost like the name gives a clue

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[Vaquero]

Yup. We’re born to die. Eventually

[Mouton]

Darwin awardee

[Pajamajan]

"This came the day after Death Valley reached 126 degrees, the hottest temperature anywhere on the planet in 2023."

So the highest temperature on earth this year, was recorded in the hottest place on earth.

Shocking.(/s)

Brain washing media fear campaign in action. 🙄

[Hildy]

yep... But it’s a dry heat! :) :) When people say that I respond with “So is my oven, but I wouldn’t want to put my head in it all day.

[njslim]

Being called Death Valley might give you a reason to stay away

[meyer]

Well, it’s called “Death Valley” for a reason.

[Qiviut]

As a child, our vehicles only had “4-55 air” - 4 open windows at 55 mph. I can remember sweltering pretty badly on trips. On a long trip across several states, my little brother’s blanket blew out of the back window of the station wagon (he was in the very back). We were on a relatively new stretch of interstate & exits were something like 20 miles apart. Dad said he was not going back, but after MILES of screaming with my brother as red as a beet (no joke) he did go back. We found the blankie in the road with a big black tire tread mark on it. My brother sat by the washing machine & dryer the entire time it was cleaned.

My dad had advanced heart failure - he would not have made it very long without AC. When the AC went out on his old truck, he shelled out the bucks to get it fixed - said he “had” to have it. We have come close to checking him into a hotel when the power was out at the house due to storms.

You do become acclimated to heat - the folks in the good old days were acclimated. If you had health issues affected by heat, like heart failure, you just didn’t live as long.

[COBOL2Java]

Unfortunately something like this is pretty much a yearly occurrence in desert areas. Has nothing to do with climate change.

The globull warming propagandists will nevertheless jump on this.

[TStro]

In 1976 it was 126 in Needles. Pretty warm. On the way to Disneyland when the world was a carousel of color.

[Sooth2222]

In 1939, Packard became the first automobile manufacturer to offer an optional air conditioning unit in its 1940 model year cars.

[njslim]

95 in New Jersey yesterday Last year had 49 days above 90 f

This year only 7 so far, so been a cool year so far

[PrairieLady2]

It’s just one more oppertunity to push the climate change agend, like people who died of cancer or car accidents died of covid.
They tried to push the covid diagnosis onto my stepdaughter’s death of breast cancer. Luckily, her husband caught the trick and made them correct it.

Sat one time, this entire planet was tropical, even the poles so climate change is a normal earth cycle. Taxing humans for it merely puts $$ into the hands of the dishonest. $90% to the leaders of the communities, 10% to planting trees and picking up cow shit.

[GingisK]

Yeah! I remember those good old days!

[NWFree]

There’s a reason it’s called Death Valley

Duh

[SkyDancer]

Sometimes it’s reported that it was an ‘experienced’ hiker like here in the PNW when an ‘experienced’ hiker dies, either in winter, summer, spring, you name it.