{"id":1032120,"date":"2026-08-30T02:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1032120\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T02:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:01:13","slug":"2-runners-hospitalized-after-high-school-cross-country-meet-in-chandler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1032120\/","title":{"rendered":"2 runners hospitalized after high school cross-country meet in Chandler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><strong>CHANDLER, Ariz.<\/strong> &#8211; Two high school cross-country runners were hospitalized due to heat-related illness on Saturday while at a meet, according to the Chandler Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Crews responded to <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/tdpzX2VxBqkzSafq8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Tumbleweed Park in Chandler<\/strong><\/a> at around 9:25 a.m. on Aug. 29. According to Chief Scott Chapman, fire personnel &#8220;realized they had multiple patients,&#8221; and requested extra resources.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tumbleweed-park-city-of-chandler-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Two runners participating in the meet were taken to a nearby hospital with symptoms of apparent heat-related illness. Three other individuals were treated at the meet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/weather\/arizona-weather-forecast-82826\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>high in Phoenix on Saturday<\/strong><\/a> reached 113 degrees.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The exact heat-related illness was not released, and the conditions and identities of those hospitalized were not made known.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Fire officials did not release any additional information.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/tdpzX2VxBqkzSafq8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Map<\/strong><\/a> of where the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information in this report was gathered by the Chandler Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/weather\/severe-weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Severe Weather<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/chandler\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chandler<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHANDLER, Ariz. &#8211; Two high school cross-country runners were hospitalized due to heat-related illness on Saturday while at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1032121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,13823,1588,50,1589,5313,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,313],"class_list":["post-1032120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-chandler","tag-maricopa-county","tag-news","tag-phoenix","tag-severe-weather","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-weather"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117181999155206925","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}