30 new deaths were confirmed to be heat-related Wednesday, bringing the total number of heat deaths in Maricopa County in 2023 to 89.
PHOENIX — 30 new deaths were confirmed to be heat-related by the Maricopa County Department of Public Health Wednesday.Of those 89 deaths, 52 are listed as"heat-caused," while the other 37 were classified as"heat-related."July was the hottest month ever recorded in Phoenix, and multiple heat records went down during the month.
It's also proving to take a toll at the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's office. In late July, the office brought in coolers for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. “July is always a tough month, but this is particularly bad,” county spokesperson Jason Berry said at the time. In a previous interview with ABC15, Dr. Jeff Johnston, the Chief Medical Examiner for Maricopa County, said with the surge in death-investigation cases in July, it's"a pretty fair assumption" that July will likely record a record number of heat associated deaths in a single month.
The final report on heat-related deaths in 2022 was released last month. It showed that heat-associated deaths in 2022 were up 25% in 2021, from 339 to 425.
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