On a recent Friday in Albuquerque, as triple-digit temperatures stretched into the evening, a 69-year-old man collapsed in his home.
His body temperature hit 107.7 degrees by the time emergency responders whisked him to the University of New Mexico Hospital.
Workers dumped ice on his body as part of a last-ditch effort to curtail his heatstroke.
Extreme heat, intensified by climate change, has blanketed much of the United States this summer, killing more than a dozen people in Oregon in recent days.
Large parts of California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah have been under excessive heat warnings, which local officials believe contributed to more than 90 deaths in the West this month.
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University of New, University of New Mexico Hospital . Nurses
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Albuquerque, University of New Mexico, United States, Oregon, California , Nevada , Arizona, Utah