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   Health in the western Indian city Gandhinagar, said because of   
   poor reporting it’s unknown how many die in the country from   
   heat exposure.   
      
   Summertime cooling centers for homeless, elderly and other   
   vulnerable populations have opened in several European countries   
   each summer since a heat wave killed 70,000 people across Europe   
   in 2003.   
      
   Emergency service workers on bicycles patrol Madrid’s streets,   
   distributing ice packs and water in the hot months. Still, some   
   1,300 people, most of them elderly, continue to die in Spain   
   each summer because of health complications exacerbated by   
   excess heat.   
      
   Spain and southern France last week sweltered through unusually   
   hot weather for mid-June, with temperatures hitting 104 degrees   
   (40 Celsius) in some areas.   
      
   Climate scientist David Hondula, who heads Phoenix’s new office   
   for heat mitigation, says that with such extreme weather now   
   seen around the world, more solutions are needed to protect the   
   vulnerable, especially homeless people who are about 200 times   
   more likely than sheltered individuals to die from heat-   
   associated causes.   
      
   “As temperatures continue to rise across the U.S. and the world,   
   cities like Seattle, Minneapolis, New York or Kansas City that   
   don’t have the experience or infrastructure for dealing with   
   heat have to adjust as well.”   
      
   In Phoenix, officials and advocates hope a vacant building   
   recently converted into a 200-bed shelter for homeless people   
   will help save lives this summer.   
      
   Mac Mais, 34, was among the first to move in.   
      
   “It can be rough. I stay in the shelters or anywhere I can   
   find,” said Mais who has been homeless on and off since he was a   
   teen. “Here, I can stay out actually rest, work on job   
   applications, stay out of the heat.”   
      
   In Las Vegas, teams deliver bottled water to homeless people   
   living in encampments around the county and inside a network of   
   underground storm drains under the Las Vegas strip.   
      
   Ahmedabad, India, population 8.4 million, was the first South   
   Asian city to design a heat action plan in 2013.   
      
   Through its warning system, nongovernmental groups reach out to   
   vulnerable people and send text messages to mobile phones. Water   
   tankers are dispatched to slums, while bus stops, temples and   
   libraries become shelters for people to escape the blistering   
   rays.   
      
   Still, the deaths pile up.   
      
   Kimberly Rae Haws, a 62-year-old homeless woman, was severely   
   burned in October 2020 while sprawled for an unknown amount of   
   time on a sizzling Phoenix blacktop. The cause of her subsequent   
   death was never investigated.   
      
   A young man nicknamed Twitch died from heat exposure as he sat   
   on a curb near a Phoenix soup kitchen in the hours before it   
   opened one weekend in 2018.   
      
   “He was supposed to move into permanent housing the next   
   Monday,” said Jim Baker, who oversees that dining room for the   
   St. Vincent de Paul charity. “His mother was devastated.”   
      
   Many such deaths are never confirmed as heat related and aren’t   
   always noticed because of the stigma of homelessness and lack of   
   connection to family.   
      
   When a 62-year-old mentally ill woman named Shawna Wright died   
   last summer in a hot alley in Salt Lake City, her death only   
   became known when her family published an obituary saying the   
   system failed to protect her during the hottest July on record,   
   when temperatures reached the triple digits.   
      
   Her sister, Tricia Wright, said making it easier for homeless   
   people to get permanent housing would go a long way toward   
   protecting them from extreme summertime temperatures.   
      
   “We always thought she was tough, that she could get through   
   it,” Tricia Wright said of her sister. “But no one is tough   
   enough for that kind of heat.”   
      
   https://apnews.com/article/climate-science-health-and-   
   environment-4f23d928ea637d239147c0e4adbad6dc   
      
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