Maricopa County confirmed 25 heat-associated deaths this year as of Saturday since the first one was recorded in April, with 249 more under investigation.
Another seven heat-associated deaths were confirmed over the last week in America’s hottest big metro, health officials reported Wednesday, amid aMaricopa County, the most populous county in Arizona and home to Phoenix,
The region's county and city governments, hospitals, schools and nonprofit groups that operate several hundred cooling and hydrating stations across the area are closely watching the confirmed death figures, along with daily forecasts from the National Weather Service. While the numbers confirm that people are continuing to die in Maricopa County from causes associated with the heat, it's hard to draw firm conclusions.
Sonia Singh, supervisor with the Maricopa County Public Health Department's communications office, said the update means only "that seven additional deaths were confirmed in that time frame, not necessarily that they occurred in that time frame." All of the people who died indoors both years were in uncooled environments. Most of the people had an air conditioner that was nonworking, turned off or nonexistent. In three cases this year, there was no electricity to power a cooling system.
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