Family members of some of the people killed by record-breaking heat in the Portland area three years ago gathered over the weekend to plant trees across…
Family members placed paper hearts marked with the names of the people they lost into the ground with the hornbeam, which was among 72 trees planted Saturday., area three years ago gathered over the weekend to plant trees across Multnomah County in honor of its 72 victims.
Three consecutive days of extraordinary temperatures in the Pacific Northwest, which usually experiences mild summers, shattered all-time records. Temperatures in Portland reached triple digits for three days, peaking at 116 degrees Fahrenheit as records fell across Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, Canada.On the third day of that heat, Jerome Ollison's daughter, NaCheryl, said she knew something was wrong when her father didn't answer his phone.
Scientists said the deadly heat would have been virtually impossible without human-caused climate change that added a few extra degrees to the record-smashing temperatures.
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