The past week saw the world’s first heat related nationwide shutdown as Iran’s government declared two midweek days to be public holidays, urging elderly people and those with health conditions to stay indoors as temperatures in some southern towns hit 51°C.
In the United States, meanwhile, burn wards in Phoenix, Arizona, were full as the asphalt reached temperatures of 82°C. Asphalt and concrete burns accounted for half of the burn patients in the intensive care unit, said Kevin Foster, director of the Arizona Burn Center. He told the news channel CNN that people who fell and struggled to rise quickly had “really serious injuries” that were comparable to those seen in house fires. Paramedics have sustained burnt knees while attending to patients. Other patients had been scalded by water from garden hoses.
At the quadrennial World Scout Jamboree on South Korea’s southwest coast, where 43 000 scouts camped out in a blistering heatwave, 807 people sought medical treatment in the first two days, and UK and US scouts retreated to hotels over the weekend. The organisers tried to continue but ended the …
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