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all due to the unrelenting high temperatures. the patient numbers are up more than 15% compared to last year at hospitals in the rio grande valley. as of about a week ago, one hospital in phoenix said roughly one out of every five patients coming in had some sort of heat-related illness. i want to bring in dr. kevin foster, director of the arizona burn center for valley wide health. doctor, thank you for being with us. i know how busy you are. are you seeing this with the same kind of up tick in patients that many other hospitals have been seeing? we really have. we had a very nice spring here in arizona. but now that the temperatures have gotten into triple digits, we are really seeing a sharp spike in the number of patients coming in with heat-related injuries, particularly burn injuries from contact with hot pavement. well, let s talk about that because i read that exposed pavement can reach 180 degrees. what kind of damage could that do to a person even with just a

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