PHOENIX — The medical examiner's office in Arizona's Maricopa County is over capacity and has had to bring in refrigeration units due to a spike in deaths this month amid a record-breaking heat wave, officials said.
It's the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 that the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office has needed extra coolers for the dead. As of Thursday, the office was at 106% of standard capacity, according to Phoenix ABC affiliate KNXV-TV.
"While we typically see a surge in intakes to the Office of the Medical Examiner in July, this year has been worse than prior years," the spokesperson said in a statement."At Maricopa County, we do not wait for a challenging situation to become a crisis before we respond. That is what prudent planning is all about. As the County did during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have secured additional coolers to manage the increase in decedents. These coolers have not yet been utilized.
On Wednesday, the Maricopa County Department of Public Health released data showing that the county has had a total of 24 confirmed heat-associated deaths so far this year, with another 249 deaths under investigation. The weather forecast for Friday shows extreme heat will continue to plague the southwestern United States, with temperatures expected to reach a high of 113 degrees in Phoenix. The heat is forecast to persist over the weekend but by Sunday and Monday, temperatures aren't expected to be quite as high as they have been in recent weeks.
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