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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Seth Borenstein,Mary Katherine Wildeman and Anita Snow

AP analysis finds 2023 set record for US heat deaths, killing in areas that used to handle the heat

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

David Hom suffered from diabetes and felt nauseated before he went out to hang his laundry in 108-degree weather, another day in Arizona's record-smashing, unrelenting July heat wave.

His family found the 73-year-old lying on the ground, his lower body burned. Hom died at the hospital, his core body temperature at 107 degrees.

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