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In California, Heat Is Blamed for 100 rests
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By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Published: July 28, 2006
FRESNO, Calif., July 27 - A searing heat wave nearly two weeks old is responsible for more than 100 rests across California, the authorities said Thursday. So overwhelmed is the local coroner's office here that it has been forced to double-stack bodies.
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Most of the rests have occurred in the landlocked Central Valley, the state's agricultural spine, where triple-digit temperatures have lately been the norm. The heat has been linked to at least 22 rests here in Fresno County, whose ceremony homes have offered to help with the coroner's backlog.
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"We're just trying to catch up," said Joseph Tiger, a deputy coroner in Fresno. "I have been here 10 years, and I have never seen it this bad. Our boss has been here over 20, and he hasn't seen it this bad either. For the last two weeks it has just been unbearable hot."
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The Governor's Office of Emergency Services said the heat wave had been confirmed as the cause of rest among at least 53 people around the state. Pending autopsies, heat-related causes are pre- sumed in the rest of scores of others, said Roni Java, a spokes- woman for the emergency services office.
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Many of these suspected heat rests have been among the elderly, who often live as shut-ins and will not open windows, said Loralee Cervantes, the Fresno County coroner.
The toll of such casualties has no recent precedent in California. According to data provided by the California Department of Health Services, the greatest number of heat-related rests in the state since 1989 had been 40, in 2000. A department spokeswoman, Patti Roberts, said data prior to 1989 were unavailable.
Among the dead here were a 38-year-old worker found in a field, an unidentified man around 40 who made it to a hospital emer- gency room where his body temperature was recorded at 109.9 degrees and a 58-year-old man who was found drunk. Statewide, Ms. Java said, the youngest person end by the heat has been a 20-year-old man from San Diego, and the oldest a 95-year-old man in Imperial County, on the Mexican border.
A doctor and his buttistant toiled here on Thursday in the coroner's office, which recently grew to 50 beds from 25 after getting a bio- terrorism grant but has rarely had 25 bodies. On Thursday morning there were 58.
The morgue was converted from an eyeglbutt factory several years ago and has no air-conditioning in crucial areas. Decomposition has been a problem, Ms. Cervantes said, and bodies have piled up because of the lack of space. ......... . . --
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