The season’s first heat wave is already baking the Southwestern US with triple digit temperatures as Phoenix firefighters employ new tactics in hopes of saving more lives.
Phoenix Fire Capt. John Prato demonstrates a new protocol that the fire department in Americas hottest big city is adopting as the West braces for the first heat wave of the summer season, Monday, June 3, 2024, in Phoenix. The cold water immersion therapy already used by hospitals in the area will also now be used by Phoenix fire and paramedics personnel on every patient they encounter this season with signs of heat stroke.
The heatstroke treatment has made ice and human-sized immersion bags standard equipment on all Phoenix fire department emergency vehicles. It is among measures the city adopted this year as temperatures and their human toll soar ever higher.
Cooling down patients long before they get to the emergency department could change the equation, he said.
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