Heat Related Deaths
Six suspected illegal immigrants died in the deserts of Arizona as a result of the heat.
In Orofino, Idaho, a one-year-old boy was found dead locked in a car.
Cities in California opened cooling centers as power companies declared a stage 1 emergency.
Read more about this topic: 2007 Western North American Heat Wave
Famous quotes containing the words heat, related and/or deaths:
“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,—kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,—the roots of all things are in man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)