Extreme heat has caused hundreds of deaths among the U.S. homeless population
and severe thunderstorms that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands across the Midwest.
It shows no sign of letting up: the heat is forecasted to shift south and southeastward during the week likely breaking temperature records in Atlanta, Nashville, Memphis, Little Rock, and St. Louis.Severe heat kills at least 1,500 deaths annually, AP reports, and around half of those deaths are among homeless people advocates say.
In Phoenix, at least 130 homeless people were among 339 people who died from heat-related causes in 2021, according to the: "If 130 homeless people were dying in any other way it would be considered a mass casualty event," Kristie Ebi, a professor of global health at the University of Washington, told AP.
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