Twenty-six people have suffered heat-related deaths in Pima County so far this year, which is just shy of the 28 heat deaths recorded in Pima County for all of 2022.
Charles Borla The Tucson area has recorded 26 heat-related deaths so far this year, just two shy of the total heat-related deaths recorded for all of 2022.
“There’s going to be quite a few more … I don’t know, a lot,” he said. “It’s almost like an overdose where you don’t get an instantaneous answer until you get data back from the lab, so there’s lag. We probably won’t know the full effect of this heat until the end of August.”People are also reading… The numbers do not include the deaths of migrants crossing the border.
Of those who suffered heat-caused deaths, four were women, four were men. Four were in the age range of 60 to 69; three were 70 to 79; and one was 80 to 89.
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