Kafoury to speak about Multnomah County heat deaths Tuesday July 12 2021
A preliminary report on the disprortionate number of heat wave deaths in the county is scheduled to be released on July 13.
Multnomah County officials will release a preliminary report on the disproportionate number of deaths in the county from the late June heat wave on Tuesday, July 13.
Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury is scheduled to speak to the press at the early morning briefing. Also speaking will be Health Officer Dr. Jennifer Vines, Emergency Management Director Chris Voss, and Chief Medicolegal Death Investigator Kimberly DiLeo.
It will be the first press briefing with a top elected leader in the state since the June 25-28 fatal heat wave.
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Officials release ethnicities, ZIP codes of Oregon heat wave victims OregonLive.com 5 hrs ago Jack Forrest, oregonlive.com © Mark Friesen/The Oregonian/OregonLive The five ZIP codes with the most deaths caused by Oregon s heat wave are in Multnomah County.
State officials for the first time Friday detailed the ethnicities of people confirmed to have died of hyperthermia amid Oregon’s heat wave, as well as the ZIP codes where they succumbed to the historic heat.
Seventy-two of the 83 confirmed hyperthermia victims were white, according to data from the Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Office.
Four of the heat victims were Hispanic, and two were Black. One apiece were of Asian, Native American or Pacific Islander descent. The ethnicities of two people who died were not listed.