A potter’s field burial site on Hart Island was receiving 24 bodies each day, as many as the city typically used to bury there in a week.
Last month in Karachi, Pakistan, temperatures approached 120 degrees Fahrenheit and hospitals reportedly treated thousands for heatstroke.
A nonprofit operating four mortuaries registered 128 deaths in a single day, mostly of people on the margins of society.
In June, more than one-third of the country’s population was under extreme heat advisories, but immediately after Independence Day things intensified.
In Palm Springs, Calif., temperatures reached a record 124 degrees, Las Vegas broke its own previous record by three degrees and in Death Valley, Calif., temperatures reached 129, within one degree of the all-time, anywhere-in-the-world modern record.
Persons:
Yorkers, ” Jeff Goodell, Mikhail Chester
Organizations:
New, Edhi Foundation, Las
Locations:
New York City, Hart, Karachi, Pakistan, Palm Springs, Calif, Las Vegas, Death Valley, California, Phoenix