One of those fires, the Mill Fire, killed two people on Friday and injured three others when it quickly tore through a historically Black community in Weed, California, a town of 2,500 in Siskiyou County. A historic drought has also rocked much of California, setting off a string of wildfires with no reprieve from rain expected this week. The heat itself isn’t the only thing officials are worried about. “Very high risk of heat stress or illness for the entire population.” “Extreme heat will significantly increase the potential for heat related illnesses, particularly for those working or participating in outdoor activities,” the weather service wrote in a bulletin. But the current heat wave is far from over, scientists warn, and it could still be deadly. Ĭan We ‘Hack’ Our Bodies to Resist Heat Waves?Ĭalifornia has so far avoided total catastrophe akin to the heat wave that struck the Pacific Northwest last summer, which killed nearly 200 people in Oregon and Washington. ![]() “It seems like they all have the same story: ‘We are living in our cars, and it’s like living in an oven,’” Marina Calderon, who was working at a public cooling center in the Bay Area on Monday, told the San Francisco Chronicle. Los Angeles, meanwhile, has a high of 95 on Tuesday. Way to the south, San Diego tied its all-time warmest low temperature on record on Sunday, when the typically-temperate city fell to just 78 degrees. In San Francisco itself, meanwhile, the high Tuesday was forecast to be 99-27 degrees higher than the city’s average high for a September day.
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