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PHOENIX<\/strong> – The extreme heat<\/strong><\/a> can make everyday activities dangerous, and contact burns are on the rise in the Phoenix area.<\/p>\n A man who suffered third-degree burns<\/strong><\/a> is sharing his story again as a cautionary tale.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Two years ago, Robert Woolley, 72, fell on rocks outside his Phoenix home and couldn’t get up. What started as a routine check of his pool quickly turned into a fight for his life.<\/p>\n “I got distracted by birds. I tripped on a patio slab and I started to go down,” Woolley said. “I put a hand down to catch myself and I was started by how hot and shocked the rocks were. Reflexively I picked my hand back up and then I went all the way down.”<\/p>\n He said the skin peeled off like an onion, and the skin underneath looked like “raw hamburger.”<\/p>\n Woolley, who suffered third-degree burns on 20% of his body, was able to get to his back door and yell for his wife. He said a voice in his head told him, “if you fall asleep, you\u2019re not gonna wake back up,” which gave him a surge of adrenaline.<\/p>\n Dr. Kevin Foster, Director of Burn Services for the Arizona Burn Center<\/strong><\/a>, said whenever temperatures climb, he sees a spike in contact burns.<\/p>\n “Above 105 degrees Fahrenheit, we start seeing problems, and then once we get above 110, we really see big problems,” Foster said.<\/p>\n \u2018I would\u2019ve died on my back patio\u2019 <\/p>\n Woolley, who still has scars, said the fall gave him a new appreciation for life.<\/p>\n “If my wife had not been home, and she wouldn\u2019t had heard me, I would\u2019ve died on my back patio. And I know that,” he said.<\/p>\n Severe Weather<\/a>Arizona<\/a>News<\/a>Phoenix<\/a>Health<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX – The extreme heat can make everyday activities dangerous, and contact burns are on the rise in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,210,1588,50,1589,5313,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-125489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-maricopa-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-severe-weather","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa","22":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114985768678325501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125489","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=125489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"(Related)](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/8FAEC0FE234A4053837492D2EC2516E9.jpg\")
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