US media: The risk of the American homeless person died at high temperature weather than others than others

According to the Associated Press reported on June 25, in the center of Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, on the sidewalks of dusty and soil in the scorching sun, hundreds of blue, green and gray tents are everywhere. Essence In this hottest city in the United States, with the arrival of the temperature of the three digits (above 38 ° C) in the summer, thousands of homeless wanderers face the threat of heat waves.

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The Associated Press said that in the context of the rising period of tenants during the new period of crown pneumonia and the rise of local housing rental prices, this suffocating "tent city" continued to swell, and the new stray people were thrown into the heat. On the street. When the temperature in the afternoon is the highest, the street becomes extremely quiet. The heat wave earlier this month brought about 45.5 degrees Celsius at a high temperature -and this was only June. The highest temperature last year was 47.7 degrees Celsius.

The report pointed out that in the United States, the number of deaths related to high temperature weather is more than the sum of high -temperature weather than hurricanes, floods and tornado. High temperatures cause about 1,500 people across the United States each year, about half of them are homeless. In this county where Phoenix is ​​located, at least 130 land -in people died in high temperature weather in 2021.

"If 130 homeless people died in any other way, it would be considered a large -scale casualties," said Kristie L. EBI, a professor of global health professor at the University of Washington.

Climate scientist David Hondula is the person in charge of the newly established heatstroke and cooling office of Phoenix. He said that due to extreme weather this year, more solutions are needed to protect vulnerable groups, especially without home. Can be returned, the possibility of dying at high temperatures in the United States is about 200 times higher than those who have residences.

He said, "As the temperature continues to rise in the United States and around the world, cities that have no experience or infrastructure in Seattle, Minnespolis, New York or Kansas City must also be adjusted."

It is reported that in Phoenix, officials and advocates hoping to be rebuilt into a vacant building with 200 beds that can be charged with wandering, which will help save some people's lives this summer.

In Las Vegas, there are charities who are living in the wanderer camp around the city and the homeless returns in the underground drainage pipes under the Las Vegas Avenue.

The Associated Press reported that despite this, the number of deaths is still increasing.

In October 2020, the 62 -year -old homeless woman Kimberly Rae Haws was severely burned. At that time, she was lying on the hot Phoenix asphalt road.

One weekend in 2018, a young man nicknamed Twitch sat in front of a charity of Phoenix and waited for the door to open the door and died of high temperature weather within a few hours.

The Associated Press said that due to the sense of shame of the homeless and the lack of contact with their families, these deceaseds were not always noticed.

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