It’s so hot in Arizona, doctors are
treating a spike of patients who were
burned by falling on the ground
CNN,
by
Jen Christensen
Original Article
Posted By: Grateful,
7/24/2023 8:53:32 AM
It is so hot in Maricopa County, Arizona, that people are being brought into the emergency room with significant, sometimes life-threatening burns. For the past three or four weeks of this record heatwave, people have been burned just by falling on the ground. “Summers are our busy season, so we anticipate that this sort of thing is going to happen. But this is really unusual — the number of patients that we’re seeing and the severity of injuries — the acuity of injuries is much higher,” said Dr. Kevin Foster, director of burn services at the Arizona Burn Center at Valleywise Health.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/24/2023 8:58:17 AM (No. 1519200)
It’s summer in the desert. Yawn.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 7/24/2023 9:02:28 AM (No. 1519204)
Why anyone would want to sped the summer in Arizona is beyond me, and yet I know several people who live there year round.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
kono 7/24/2023 9:14:25 AM (No. 1519211)
This report has an eerily familiar tone to it. Maybe we should park all our cars for a couple of weeks to flatten the temperature curve.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
joew9 7/24/2023 9:22:00 AM (No. 1519218)
My father and my uncle lived out there for a while. Nothing any different. But you know those cheap air coolers they advertise on TV and everyone says is a scam. They mostly are but they actually work in Arizona. Those devices work only with very low humidity air. Technically they are called swamp coolers. And are usually 6 foot by 6 foot. Not desktop size like that junk on TV. Dad said they had a big one running one night and the ladies had to put on sweaters. I would have liked to have seen that. But those were the days before me.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/24/2023 9:23:11 AM (No. 1519220)
How hot is it?
Where is Johnny Carson when we really need him?
"It was so hot today that - - - - - - "
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
red1066 7/24/2023 9:25:30 AM (No. 1519223)
This reminds me of the call I got from a car dealer in Palm Springs Ca. while working for a large leasing company. Seems a car a salesperson has been waiting for to come in had a problem with the heat before it could be delivered. The heat had warped the steering wheel and melted the shifter cover, and the salesperson would have to wait a little longer for repairs before it could be delivered. While the dealer stated this was somewhat usual, it has happened before.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 7/24/2023 9:58:47 AM (No. 1519248)
Several years ago I was talking to a guy from Tucson, AZ. He said that he only wears gloves in the summer to protect his hands from hot objects.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
moebellini3 7/24/2023 10:00:34 AM (No. 1519251)
Gee, July in Arizona and it's hot. Put you hand on the hood of a car that's been sitting in the Arizona sun for an hour and see what happens. And yes, the ground is also hot. Really, how is this anything new. Pathetic.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Banjo Willy 7/24/2023 10:06:22 AM (No. 1519257)
"At least it's dry heat"
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
broken01 7/24/2023 10:12:09 AM (No. 1519261)
Back early into the 20th century we took the desert and made 114,000 square miles of a state in it. Of course, it's going to be not just hot but damn hot there.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
paral04 7/24/2023 10:20:50 AM (No. 1519277)
Maybe it is God's way of punishing the election stealers there.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/24/2023 10:28:45 AM (No. 1519288)
It was 125 degrees one day when I was there. The asphalt was mushy under my feet as I walked to my car. Boeing wouldn't even allow their aircraft to take off from Sky Harbor Airport, since their operational charts didn't extend to that temperature. This is not the first time it's been hot in Phoenix, or in Death Valley.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 7/24/2023 10:31:24 AM (No. 1519289)
Why are all these people suddenly falling over in parking lots and on the street? It’s July in Arizona; it’s ALWAYS 115 degrees during the daytime.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 7/24/2023 10:42:29 AM (No. 1519303)
Baloney. I don't believe it. Now I do remember that when I was a kid in the summer in Florida, you ran around a lot in flip flops. Why not barefoot? Because if you tried to make it across an asphalt parking lot even once....you never forgot your flip flops again.
On a 98F day in the direct Florida (or desert) sun, asphalt gets HOT. I don't think it would actually burn you, but it was darned unpleasant and you got off of it, pronto.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Highlander 7/24/2023 10:56:32 AM (No. 1519323)
Us neighborhood kids went to the muni pool to cool off during a 120° day. I forgot my sandals since I was mostly barefoot at ten years of age. It wasn’t bad on the way there, but coming back, I had to hold my towel out in front of me so I could shuffle across the asphalt intersection with my bare feet on it.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
snakeoil 7/24/2023 10:58:06 AM (No. 1519325)
I live in the Southeast where it gets hot in the summer but not Arizona hot. Often see worms crawl out of the grass onto asphalt or concrete and start wiggling in agony because of the heat. When it really gets hot a weather person will take an egg and fry it on a sidewalk. I love my air conditioner.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 7/24/2023 11:04:35 AM (No. 1519331)
Sounds like sidewalk use by the homeless is not a good idea in Phoenix.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 7/24/2023 12:13:00 PM (No. 1519380)
Saw this in a comment section last week and thought it was funny...'the national media screaming about how hot it is in a city named after a mythical bird that bursts into flames'
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Kate318 7/24/2023 12:25:48 PM (No. 1519388)
I can believe it. We are currently on a 2 wk tour of the upper US, including ND, MT, WA, OR , UT and WY. We chose these states because we thought the first four would be cooler than our NE weather in the summer (and to see Glacier Nat’l Park.) It is unbelievably hot here with the local temps in the upper 90s. It’s been that hot here for weeks, which is unusually long for this part of the country. In fact, we keep joking that we might as well have gone to AZ. (Yes, I know it’s much hotter there.) The entire western U.S. has been under this heat wave.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Hazymac 7/24/2023 12:33:06 PM (No. 1519393)
Sorry to break this to them, but it's mid-summer in the desert. Everything gets hot then. The Gorons at CNN don't grok summer heat. It's unexpected. Yesterday I heard a radio report of people going through heat related problems. I nearly passed my coffee through my sinuses when I heard the announcer intone, "Forecasters say the heat could continue into next month." Heat in August, what a shock. In both Alaska and Siberia the mercury is above freezing for the next five or six weeks. In the winter's coldest climes, summer temperatures are well above freezing. (Alaska has four seasons: June, July, August, and winter.)
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
chillijilli 7/24/2023 1:50:16 PM (No. 1519418)
Here's the truth from a real Zonie. Yeah, it's hot, but we're in the midst of monsoons right now, with rainbows and lightening and drama, oh my. I love summer in the desert for that reason alone. We stay inside in the summer and you stay inside in the winter. What's the difference? Big deal, it's just a flip. Except... when it's 105 in JUL in Tucson, the early mornings and evenings are GORGEOUS---low 70s, so lovely outdoor entertaining under a wide starlit sky. But...guess what. When it's 20 degrees below zero in FEB in MSP there is NO nice time of the day!
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Oh great! CNN with a global warming story!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 7/24/2023 2:53:12 PM (No. 1519443)
#17 nailed it! How many people do you know who just randomly "fall on the ground"?! Drugs are a terrible thing.....in any latitude....
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/24/2023 3:17:48 PM (No. 1519464)
Okay... First of all, this is CNN. Not a reliable source. That said:
If you have as fault or cement in the sun on a reasonably clear hot day, yes, you can burn yourself on that surface. When I was a kid, I did it running across an asphalt driveway in my bare feet. It happens. It happens to exposed skin if you reach under a car to retrieve something you've dropped. This is with temperatures in the low to mid 90s, in Pennsylvania in July.
This is no surprise and not newsworthy. It simply is.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
anniebc 7/25/2023 2:13:32 AM (No. 1519773)
There are a lot of homeless people alongside the many illegals walking across the border. The desert heat is shocking to newbies not used to the heat. Many days it's like you're in hot Hell.
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