[mewzilla]

Meanwhile, from Second City Cop...

https://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2024/06/heat-builds.html?m=1

Check out the bit about the hundreds of undiscovered bodies one summer back in 1995.

Hadn’t heard about that one.

Yikes.

[Bonemaker]

Big heat wave summer of 95. They had mobile freezer morgue vehicles because they ran out of space.

"The July 1995 Chicago heat wave led to 739 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days. Most of the victims of the heat wave were elderly poor residents of the city, who did not have air conditioning, or had air conditioning but could not afford to turn it on, and did not open windows or sleep outside for fear of crime. The heat wave also heavily impacted the wider Midwestern region, with additional deaths in both St. Louis, Missouri and Milwaukee, Wisconsin."