Seattle: Every day, more deaths are connected with heat waves that hit the northwesty Pacific last week, with medical staff who treat people overwhelmed with temperatures far above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) said the number of extreme weather will still crept.
Hundreds of deaths are being investigated as related heat in Oregon, the state of Washington and British Columbia.
Dangerous heat began June 25 and just began to subside in several regions on Tuesday.
The death toll in Oregon had reached at least 95, the state medical examiner on Friday, with the majority in Multnomah county, which included Portland.
Death includes a Guatemala immigrant who collapsed when he worked in plant nurseries in the country of oregon rustic during the soaring heat.
In Canada, Head of Coroner British Columbia, Lisa Lapointe, said on Friday that 719 sudden and unexpected death had been reported in the province during the heat wave, and that number for seven days had never happened before.
Lapointe said the number of deaths was three times more than what usually happens during the same period.
Intense temperature is believed to be a significant contributing factor in the leap, but the number is expected to increase because further information is compiled, said Lapointe.
The Washington State Authority has connected around 30 deaths to heat, with more reports that come every Sunday.
“I think, over time, we will understand that the number will only rise,” said Steve Mitchell, Director of the Department of Emergency Medical Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
“I know, in my experience, that I hope to see a much greater amount than what we can currently report for talking with EMS colleagues who experienced double the call for help that day.” There were 1,792 emergency room visits for the alleged heat-related disease since June 25, the Washington State Health Department said Thursday.
From the visit, 21% required people to be treated at the hospital.
Monday has an emergency room visit, with 702, the health department said.
It is the hottest day of hot waves in many areas, with Seattle, Portland, Oregon, and other cities destroying all time heat records.
It reached 108 F (42 C) in Seattle, and 116 F (47) in the largest city in Oregon.
“With this latest hot emergency, when we deal with it, the only comparable thing in Harborview and in the area we have experienced recently is the early days of Covid,” Mitchell said.
The forecasters of the fortune teller blame the temperature that jumps more than 30 degrees above normal on “hot dome” which parks a strong high pressure system over the region.
The temperature cooled in Washington and West Oregon on Tuesday, although hot warnings still apply to northwest interior parts and Canada.
Experts say hot weather is a sign of things that will come because climate change affects global weather patterns.
Exceptional heat waves stretch to the upper part of California, where some forest fires erupted in hot and dry conditions, making it difficult for firefighters trying to defeat the flame that had pushed thousands from their homes in the mountain community and burned several residences.