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It’s so hot in Arizona, doctors are treating a spike of patients who were burned by falling on the ground
CNN ^ | 7/24/23 | Jen Christenson

Posted on 07/24/2023 6:31:27 AM PDT by Callahan

It is so hot in Maricopa County, Arizona, that people are being brought into the emergency room with significant, sometimes life-threatening burns. For the past three or four weeks of this record heatwave, people have been burned just by falling on the ground.

Construction workers gather together in the shade on July 11, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Record-breaking temperatures continue soaring as prolonged heatwaves sweep across the country's southwest. Heat can kill on the job, and these workers are dying “Summers are our busy season, so we anticipate that this sort of thing is going to happen. But this is really unusual — the number of patients that we’re seeing and the severity of injuries — the acuity of injuries is much higher,” said Dr. Kevin Foster, director of burn services at the Arizona Burn Center at Valleywise Health. “The numbers are higher and the seriousness of injuries are higher, and we don’t have a good explanation for it.”

Every single one of the 45 beds in the burn center is full, he said, and one-third of patients are people who fell and burned themselves on the ground. There are also burn patients in the ICU, and about half of those patients are people burned after falls…

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KEYWORDS: arizona; climatechange; heat; weirdkeywords
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To: Callahan
Oh, good grief Arizona. It's summer. Summer is hot. This is on my front porch last year and partially in the shade. This is normal. I have seen the asphalt melt, mirrors fall off of vehicles, and windshields explode if not vented. And yes, we can fry an egg on the hood of a car that has been sitting in the sun. I'm not sure why anyone would want to, but we can.


21 posted on 07/24/2023 6:50:47 AM PDT by Melinda in TN
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To: thefactor

“It’s hot in Arizona in the summer. Alert the media.”

This has to be Fake News


22 posted on 07/24/2023 6:51:17 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: CodeJockey

I live in Palm Desert yesterday was SO HUMID I honestly thought alligators would start popping up on the gold course!! Heat with humidity is so much worse than the dry heat we normally have!!


23 posted on 07/24/2023 6:51:33 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Callahan

I see a lawsuit coming. If you can sue the gun makers for someone getting shot by an illegally owned gun and you can sue spilling your coffee made at a fast food restaurant in your lap and it burns you and collect on either, then you can sue the pavement makers for burns received. And don’t forget the guys that put the lines in the middle of it. They were contributory because they didn’t put osha red on the outside edges to indicate the need for protection equipment. Seems simple enough even for the NTSB and especially for our DOJ.

wy69


24 posted on 07/24/2023 6:51:48 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: FreedomPoster

What do the heirloom eggs taste like? Is there a big difference In Taste?


25 posted on 07/24/2023 6:51:49 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Pollard
things we did 60 years ago in upstate ny. If it was hot in our city...mom put the sprinkler on for us...and kept us out of the sun. NONE OF US ever got a sunburn when we were young.

Now when we got into our teens...I'll call them our stupid years, yup...baaaaad sunburns.

26 posted on 07/24/2023 6:53:21 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Callahan

Construction workers work in 110 degree weather? That should be illegal.


27 posted on 07/24/2023 6:53:34 AM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: ansel12
Cheap electricity is the answer to almost everything humans need.

Exactly so...

28 posted on 07/24/2023 6:54:15 AM PDT by Bobalu (I'm homesick for a country that no longer exists...)
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To: rovenstinez

They have the annual egg frying day in Oatman every single year where they fry eggs in a pan on the sidewalk


29 posted on 07/24/2023 6:54:28 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Bob434
Yeppers. Satan is the father of lies who spawned the evil philosophies to which liberal cling.

As in the allegorical story of Dante's Inferno they firmly believe that it is better to rule in hell than serve in heaven. Even if they have to make hell for everyone else.

30 posted on 07/24/2023 6:55:47 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Ask any Vietnam vet about humidity.


31 posted on 07/24/2023 6:56:10 AM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: Callahan

IT’S JULY! IT’S ARZONA!! Yankee libs should go back to Bew Yawk!!


32 posted on 07/24/2023 6:56:32 AM PDT by ZULU (HOOVER, FREEH, MUELLER, COMEY, WRAY, SUCCESSION OF STATISTS)
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To: Callahan
Extreme heat in Arizona increased hospitalizations to pandemic levels at one medical center (CNN)

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/17/weather/southwest-us-arizona-record-heat/index.html

Note: Correction: A previous version of this story mischaracterized the status of the 55 other suspected heat-related deaths; they are still under investigation. It also misstated where the deaths occurred; they were in Maricopa County.

33 posted on 07/24/2023 7:02:30 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: rovenstinez
>>if they could fry an egg

Just a FYI to report…

IH30 East bound just west of downtown Ft Worth (Texas y’all), far right lane, in front of the Speed Limit 60 sign is a portion that is left of a baked on blood spill from seven years ago.

A guy had gotten out his crashed vehicle and was hit/killed by bleeding out quickly on the concrete on a typical Texas Summer day. The blood spill baked on the concrete is taking years to weather and erode from vehicle traffic.

The full outline of the original blood spill can be seen and about 2 square feet of the baked blood is still there 7 years later.

It ‘s just a interesting landmark/road marker I point out to as we drive past it.

Yes, concrete gets hot.

34 posted on 07/24/2023 7:03:59 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Texas Fossil

And why would a doc lie about such a thing. ???


35 posted on 07/24/2023 7:04:51 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Callahan

I’m in Scottsdale, and I’m calling BS on this one.


36 posted on 07/24/2023 7:10:42 AM PDT by Michael.SF. ( Biden-Fetterman in ‘24: It's a no brainer)
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To: Callahan

Likely another misleading title. The surface is likely not the ‘ground’ but a man-made surface.


37 posted on 07/24/2023 7:10:45 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: rovenstinez

They always did the egg thing in Yuma. This crap is all trying to convince us climate is changing and we should live in squalor and pay more tax.


38 posted on 07/24/2023 7:13:15 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: Callahan

It’s weird though how, NO MATTER HOW HOT IT GETS, foreign invaders will still hike thousands of miles to wade in the Rio Grande and demand that the Border Patrol and National Guard give them ice cold water purchased with taxpayer dollars. I’m not buying this heatwave crap. They still keep coming. Three and four hundred pound mommas carrying three toddlers don’t have any problems walking uphill for thousands of miles in this so-called climate change heatwave.


39 posted on 07/24/2023 7:13:32 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("There's no cryin' in baseball and there's no ethics in politics!" )
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To: Callahan

Given the large number of homeless drug addicts in Phoenix, “passed out on the pavement” is probably more accurate.


40 posted on 07/24/2023 7:13:52 AM PDT by robel
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