dangerous triple digit temperatures. in phoenix, first responders race to save lives as the city is expected to hit its 24th straight day of temperatures of 110 degrees or higher. the nights are just as brutal, not dipping below 90. i guess we have to be vampires in this kind of weather. reporter: nationwide extreme heat kills more than 700 people every year. for paramedics working those 911 calls, the priority is cooling people down with icy cold ivs, wet towels and ice packs. put them under the armpits, inside the shirts, put them in the groin area. reporter: july is shattering heat records. more than 3,500 so far. cities including las vegas, austin and miami are on a streak of dangerous temperatures. at some point your body is not made to function in these temperatures. heatstroke has a mortality rate of 10% or more.
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because the air was unbreathable it had turned bright orange and black above our heads from the hotel so we left immediately. we are one of the very lucky ones. we managed to get on the authority boat and this is what we are living behind. that is the beach. thousands were evacuated by land and by sea as buildings were consumed by flames in the south. some hotels burnt down all together. and, yet, a number of tourists decided to shelter in place. we had a national of it saying, yeah, we was being evacuated, but we d been told at the time our hotel was not. we locked ourselves up in our room. we had people running past on the road, hundreds of people filing down to the beach, asking for water, wet towels. the fire services has told the bbc it apologises for what it called a mess, but insisted they are trying their best in difficult conditions. rhodes s abundance of trees makes it a popular destination
we managed to get on the authority boat and this is what we re leaving behind. that s the beach. thousands were evacuated by land and by sea as buildings were consumed by flames in the south. some hotels burnt down altogether. and yet a number of tourists decided to shelter in place. we had a national alert saying| the area was being evacuated, but we were being told at that time that our hotel wasn t. we locked ourselves up in our room. we had people sort of running past on the road, hundreds of people i filing down to the beach, - asking for water, wet towels. the fire service has told the bbc it apologises for what it called a mess , but insisted they are trying their best in difficult conditions. rhodes abundance of trees makes it a popular destination for tourists. however, that is exactly what makes wildfires so likely and just so difficult for firefighters to respond to. people are living very different
they put us on a minibus and we were driving schools, gymnasiums, all full of people, hundreds and hundreds of people with just water. there were bathrooms, no toilet paper, no facilities nothing at all and i don t know if you seen photographs of people lying on the floor. we photographs of people lying on the floor. ~ .., photographs of people lying on the floor. ~ .. ., ., ., floor. we can imagine we have heard re orts but floor. we can imagine we have heard reports but you floor. we can imagine we have heard reports but you were floor. we can imagine we have heard reports but you were talking - floor. we can imagine we have heard reports but you were talking about i reports but you were talking about your friend reports but you were talking about yourfriend having breathing difficulties, but can you describe what the conditions are like? what is the air and temperature like? it s horrific. i ve had severe breathing difficulties and i have a lung condition and it s been very scar