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Sweltering streets

A homeless encampment grows in size just west of downtown Friday, May 20, 2022, in Phoenix. Associated Press
Hundreds of homeless die in extreme heat

By ANITA SNOW arrive. The stifling tent city has bal- (47.7 Celsius) last year. "During the could just offer a place on their
Associated Press looned amid pandemic-era evic- summer, it's pretty hard to find a couch indoors maybe more peo-
PHOENIX (AP) — Hundreds of blue, tions and surging rents that have place at night that's cool enough ple would live," Medlock said at a
green and grey tents are pitched dumped hundreds more people to sleep without the police run- dining room where homeless peo-
under the sun's searing rays in onto the sizzling streets that grow ning you off," said Chris Medlock, ple can get some shade and a free
downtown Phoenix, a jumble of eerily quiet when temperatures a homeless Phoenix man known meal. Excessive heat causes more
flimsy canvas and plastic along peak in the midafternoon. A heat on the streets as "T-Bone" who car- weather-related deaths in the Unit-
dusty sidewalks. Here, in the hot- wave earlier this month brought ries everything he owns in a small ed States than hurricanes, flooding
test big city in America, thousands temperatures of up to 114 de- backpack and often beds down in and tornadoes combined.
of homeless people swelter as the grees (45.5 Celsius) - and it's only a park or a nearby desert preserve
summer's triple digit temperatures June. Highs reached 118 degrees to avoid the crowds. "If a kind soul Continued on page 2