Posted on 06/05/2024 6:27:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The season’s first heat wave is already baking the Southwest with triple-digit temperatures as firefighters in Phoenix — America’s hottest big city — employ new tactics in hopes of saving more lives in a county that saw 645 heat-related deaths last year.
Starting this season, the Phoenix Fire Department is immersing heatstroke victims in ice on the way to area hospitals.
The medical technique, known as cold water immersion, is familiar to marathon runners and military service members and has also recently been adopted by Phoenix hospitals as a go-to protocol, said Fire Capt. John Prato.
Prato demonstrated the method earlier this week outside the emergency department of Valleywise Health Medical Center in Phoenix, packing ice cubes inside an impermeable blue bag around a medical dummy representing a patient.
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and it’s freezing with rain EVERY DAY here , where’s the Global Warming
I went to Nevada and the temperature was over 100 degrees. I barely broke out a sweat because there is no humidity.
I see the benefit of rapid cooling in heatstroke but wonder also if the shock of suddenly cooling and overheated patient could trigger cardiac disturbances like a dangerously fast rhythm?
Experienced this in the early 2010’s when I had a heat stroke experience. All I really remember is “The Boy’s” instantly sucking up into my body huddling somewhere around my kidney’s seeking warmth.
By the time I hit the ER, I think I could have etched my name in glass with my nipples.
Overall would not recommend the experience.
OMG! It hasn’t been this hot since the last time it was this hot. More likely folks moving there and not getting informed. When you can set your thermostat at 80 degrees to cool down......just sayin’.
I worked in AZ once. When I flew home the temperature there was over 100 with no humidity. When I arrived in NY, the temp was 80 degF with high humidity. I wanted to jump back on the next flight back to AZ.
Within minutes I was dripping in sweat.
Try staying outdoors in that heat for a while doing things people normally do outside.
Phoenix will get around 110 today and that is hot no matter how dry it is, they can go months of days exceeding 100 and have reached into the 120s, and not every single person in America’s 5th largest city is sitting in the shade drinking iced tea when outdoors, things still have to get done there.
Heat is a killer and Phoenix has it in abundance.
Millions of people living in a hot valley in the desert. Wasn’t a problem 200 years ago. Very few lived there in the hotter half of the year.
I have lived in Phoenix for five years. The spring was actually milder than usual, and the current “heat wave” is something we get every year.
I do not understand this 645 heat related victims the article mentions. Our houses are air conditioned. Our cars are air-conditioned. The stores, churches, workplaces and restaurants are air-conditioned.
Unless you are canvassing for the Susan B. Anthony Foundation (something my teen daughter did in 2020) or selling windows or solar installations, you are not particularly at risk. Maybe one of the many vagrants holding signs at highway entrances. My guess is “heat related” means “had a heart attack or a stroke on a hot day”, or someone who was going to keel over pretty soon regardless of the heat.
Wait until Pedo Joe gets re-elected and takes their air conditioners.
You’d think people would know that before deciding to move there.
How many of those victims are illegals?
I was delayed in Utah once, and the temp was 107- no hu idity- sure, it was hot, but not unbearable- however, I was forced to walk over a mile and the heat from the pavement blistered my feet something fierce.
I personally have never cared for Phoenix or Arizona and have never figured out why, but hot and cold climates should not be much of an issue to people with nice incomes.
A modern home with temp control, a nice garage with nice air conditioned cars, and everywhere you go is to eat or shop or be entertained, or serviced, all indoors and temp controlled, whether Phoenix or Minneapolis the temperatures and outdoor weather just don’t matter as much as they did in 1950 or 1850.
That was my first thought after reading the article.
It is said that a goodly number of people die each year getting into bathtubs- not from falling, but from the shock of the water to the system- I would imagine that cold water is a huge shock too- especially to those who are already quite weak and can’t weather the heat well.
“already”???
It’s LATE! We’ve suffered 110 in Scottsdale in mid May in previous years. We used to visit my BIL there and sometimes it was so bad we had to leave the pool at 10:30 am.
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