Salem, Ore.: The gloomy victim of a historic heat wave at Pacific Northwest becomes clearer when the authority in Canada, Oregon and the state of Washington said on Wednesday they were investigating hundreds of deaths that were likely to be caused by the temperature of all time in temperate regions.
Chief Coroner British Columbia, Lisa Lapointe, said his office received a report of at least 486 “sudden death and unexpected” between Friday and Wednesday.
Usually, he said about 165 people will die in Canada Province for a period of five days.
“ Even though it is too early to say for sure how many of these deaths are related to heat, it is believed the possibility of an increase in significant deaths was reportedly caused by extreme weather, “Lapointe said in a statement.
Many houses in Vancouver, like Seattle, don’t have air conditioning, make people not ready for soaring temperatures.
“ Vancouver has never experienced heat like this, and unfortunately dozens of dying people therefore, ” Vancouver police sgt.
Said Steve Addison in a statement.
Oregon health officials said more than 60 deaths had been bound to heat, with the largest region in the state, multnomah, blaming the weather for 45 deaths due to thorny temperatures Friday.
At least 20 deaths in the state of Washington have been associated with heat, the numbers are expected to rise.
Heat waves are caused by what is described by a meteorological expert as a high pressure dome above the northwest and deteriorates by climate change caused by humans, which makes extreme weather events such as more likely and more intense.
Seattle, Portland and many other cities broke the hot record of all time, with temperatures in several places reaching above 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 Celsius).
While the temperature has been cooled in West Washington, Oregon and British Columbia on Wednesday, the interior area still sweats through triple-digit temperatures because the weather system moves east to west and plains.
In the midst of dangerous heat and drought gripping West America, the crew monitors forest fires that can explode in extreme weather.
Heat warnings are in place for most Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana and Saskatchewan and Southern Alberta, where `prolonged heat waves, dangerous, and historic will last during this week, the Canadian environment.
“The ex recorded temperature this week has never happened beforehand _ life has been lost and the risk of forest fires is at a very high level, said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
In Oregon, Multnomah County medical examiner blamed 45 deaths on hyperthermia, high abnormal body temperature caused by a body failure to handle heat.
The victims ranged at the age of 44 to 97.
Districts that included Portland said that between 2017 and 2019, there were only 12 hyperthermic deaths throughout Oregon.
“ This is a true health crisis that has underlined how deadly extreme heat waves, especially for vulnerable people, “Dr.
Jennifer Vines, the district health worker, in a statement.
The King County medical examiner office, which includes the area including Seattle, said on Wednesday that a total of 13 people had died of the cause of heat-related.
In neighboring Snohomish County, three men _ aged 51, 75 and 77 _ died after experiencing heatstroke in their home, the medical examiner office told Herald daily in Everett, Washington, Tuesday.
Four deaths have also been associated with heat at Kitsap County, West Seattle.
In West Washington, Spokane Fire Department found two people killed in a Wednesday apartment building that had suffered from the symptoms of heat-related stress, the cream TV station reported.
The heat leads the electricity company in Spokane to impose rolling blackouts due to tension on the electricity network.
Avista Utilities said it tried to limit blackouts of up to one hour per customer.
Heather Rosentrerrer, an avista vice president for energy delivery, said the blackout was a matter of distribution and did not come from the lack of electricity in the system.
Renee Swecker, 66, from Clayton, Washington, visited the Fountain Splashpad at Downtown Spokane’s Riverfront Park with his grandson on Wednesday, said they’re going everywhere where there is water.
“I pray for rain every day, ‘” Swecker said.