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Hospitals Overwhelmed as Europe Heat Wave Shifts East
Emergency rooms reported a fourfold rise in heat-related visits as Spain linked 212 deaths to the heat and London logged record emergency calls.
- At least 101 million Europeans have endured temperatures over 35C for several days, with forecasts indicating more than 380 million people face heat exceeding 30C across the continent.
- Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, attributed the extreme heat to a "heat dome" of trapped air from North Africa preventing cooler air from moving in.
- Between Sunday and Wednesday, Spain's MoMo monitoring system linked 212 deaths to the heat, while France reported at least 55 drownings as residents sought relief in unauthorized areas.
- Paris police prefect Patrice Faure reported hospitals reaching a "saturation point," prompting authorities to ban evening alcohol sales and public consumption in Paris starting today.
- UN climate chief Simon Stiell said the heatwave "has the fingerprints of the climate crisis all over it," warning that "until humanity stops burning colossal amounts of coal, oil and gas, extreme heat will keep getting worse.
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Hospitals overwhelmed as Europe heat wave shifts east
A deadly European heat wave that has saturated hospitals as temperatures soared to record highs was shifting east Friday, with authorities warning of more misery on a continent not used to stretches of punishing heat.
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