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Deaths From Extreme Heat Are Just Beginning

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It’s been a few years now since deadly heat waves have become a grim summer tradition. This July was no exception. Several days last month saw record highs, and with them, all manner of tragedies. As features writer Elizabeth Weil lays out in this devastating tour through last month’s heat-wave casualties, heat is a multiplier, punishing the already vulnerable and exposing how often we fail to keep each other safe.

—Genevieve Smith, executive editor, New York  

Killing Season Deaths from extreme heat are just beginning.

July in Death Valley National Park’s Badwater Basin, where temperatures reached 129 degrees. Photo: Kirby Lee/AP
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