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…
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
“It’s hot in Arizona in the summer. Alert the media.”
This has to be Fake News
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!!
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.
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What do the heirloom eggs taste like? Is there a big difference In Taste?
Now when we got into our teens...I'll call them our stupid years, yup...baaaaad sunburns.
Construction workers work in 110 degree weather? That should be illegal.
Exactly so...
They have the annual egg frying day in Oatman every single year where they fry eggs in a pan on the sidewalk
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.
Ask any Vietnam vet about humidity.
IT’S JULY! IT’S ARZONA!! Yankee libs should go back to Bew Yawk!!
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.
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.
And why would a doc lie about such a thing. ???
I’m in Scottsdale, and I’m calling BS on this one.
Likely another misleading title. The surface is likely not the ‘ground’ but a man-made surface.
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.
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.
Given the large number of homeless drug addicts in Phoenix, “passed out on the pavement” is probably more accurate.
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