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PHOENIX<\/strong> – Amid a scorching heat wave, Phoenix firefighters are responding to heat-related emergency calls, especially among people experiencing homelessness.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n On Aug. 7, Phoenix reached a record-breaking 118 degrees<\/strong><\/a>, contributing to heat-related emergencies rescue crews responded to.<\/p>\n FOX 10’s Lindsey Ragas rode along with firefighters as they responded to two such calls on Aug. 8.<\/p>\n The first call came in just before 4:30 p.m. for a man experiencing homelessness who was found with body cramps inside a pizza restaurant.<\/p>\n “He stated he had been out in the heat for the last couple of days,” Phoenix Fire Capt. Jerome Adams said. The man was taken to a hospital by ambulance.<\/p>\n The second call was for a man found lying on the ground at Steele Indian School Park. A runner who called 911 reported the man was breathing, but by the time firefighters arrived, he had gone into cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n “We have a device called a LUCAS device<\/strong><\/a>, which is our automatic CPR machine,” Phoenix Fire Capt. DJ Lee said, explaining that it frees up hands for other critical measures.<\/p>\n Firefighters performed resuscitation efforts and used a cold immersion bag to cool the man, whose body temperature was over 104 degrees. He was not breathing when transported to the hospital.<\/p>\n “They are a lot more common than we like,” Lee said of the heat calls. “Unfortunately, we do get quite a few of those. And sometimes, we get the really worst outcomes.”<\/p>\n By the numbers:<\/p>\n Since May 1, the Phoenix Fire Department has responded to more than 130 heat-related calls and has used its cold water immersion treatment more than 85 times.<\/p>\n Severe Weather<\/a>Phoenix<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX – Amid a scorching heat wave, Phoenix firefighters are responding to heat-related emergency calls, especially among people…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1588,50,1589,5313,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-131363","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-maricopa-county","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-severe-weather","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114998077551280597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131363","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=131363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}