Scientists from the United Nations and the European Union announced Thursday that the first three weeks of July were the three hottest weeks on record and that the month was almost certain to be the warmest in recorded history.
As the summer heat rises to record highs, hospitals are seeing the consequences with overcrowding, heat-related illness, and operational and financial strain.
Experts warn that the pavement is so hot that it only takes a few seconds for a person to get a third-degree burn. Last year, 257 people in the state of Arizona died from exposure to the high temperatures
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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 heat wave, people have been burned just by falling on the ground.