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Alicia Navarro, 18, showed up alone this week in a small town in Montana and identified herselfThe mother of an Arizona teenager who has reappeared safe and well after going missing four years ago has hailed her return as a “miracle”.Alicia Navarro, 18…
Between 250 and 275 million will face heat indexes of 90F as heatwave moves into parts of Great Plains, midwest and north-eastOver 170 million Americans are under heat alerts this week, according to the National Weather Service, as a heat wave that has…
Phoenix and Californian town of Needles experiencing 70th day in which temperatures have reached 90FA brutal heatwave is persisting throughout much of the US, with cities across the south-west reaching all-time records for hottest consecutive days. Int…
Doctors report busy burns units with some patients having passed out and collapsed on superheated outdoor surfacesDoctors in the US south-west have reported a rise in first-, second-, and third-degree contact burn cases amid extreme heat conditions.The…
Emergency-room doctor treating heatstroke victims with large amounts of ice as Arizona city enters ninth day of lows above 90FWith no immediate let-up anticipated for the scorching heat over the American south-west – where temperatures have reached mor…
Arizona city with a population of 1.6 million had a previous record of 18 consecutive days of 110F or higher in 1974Tuesday marked the 19th day the city of Phoenix has been subjected to temperatures of at least 110F (43.3C) – the longest stretch of tim…
Workers could be fired if they wear masks without a doctor’s note, though rule doesn’t apply in California and OregonIn-N-Out Burger, the popular fast-food chain, has told employees in five states that they will no longer be allowed to wear medical mas…
Only one cooling center remains open all night, when the concrete radiates heat stored during hellish daytime hoursEven after the sun sinks below the horizon in Phoenix, Arizona, the concrete cityscape continues to cook. In the midst of a record-breaki…
Phoenix, Arizona, logged its 16th day above 110F, and California’s Death Valley reached 122F as cities offered cooling centersA dangerous heatwave threatened a wide swath of the south-west with potentially deadly temperatures in the triple digits on Sa…
Extreme dry conditions raising fire risk; air quality alert for Minnesota took effect at 8am on Friday ‘Hell on earth’: Phoenix’s extreme heatwave tests limits of survival‘Drained and exhausted’: readers on severe heat and floods in USVermont governor …