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A new study revealed that if phoenix, arizona, were to experience a power outage during a heat wave, chances are that about 800,000 people require urgent medical assistance due to diseases related to high temperatures and about 13,000 people would die, This was announced by Business Insider.
“That would overwhelm the city’s 3,000 emergency department beds,” according to the study.
The author of the study, brian stone jr. revealed to the New York Times that these figures would be part of the “biggest weather-related hazard we can imagine.”
And it is that according to Stone, Phoenix, as well as Atlanta and Detroit, rely heavily on air conditioning.as well as other electronic cooling systems to deal with the extreme heat, but if there were to be a blackout there would be catastrophic consequences.
“I describe this as probably the biggest weather-related problem we can imagine: a power outage during a heat wave“, mentioned the author of the investigation.
The also professor at the Georgia Institute’s School of Urban and Regional Planning revealed that this study involved a model of outdoor and indoor temperaturesas well as daily activity patterns for residents and a look back at historical heat wave events in Phoenix.
In addition, the analysis is accompanied by related death statistics with the heat really alarming; Maricopa County revealed that there were 425 deaths in the year alone and record temperatures this April.
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