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Cities have Long Made Plans for Extreme Heat. Are they Enough in a Warming World?

By MELINA WALLING and ISABELLA O’MALLEY, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Natural disasters can be dramatic — barreling hurricanes, building-toppling tornadoes — but heat is more deadly. Chicago learned that the hard way in 1995. That July, a weeklong heat wave that hit 106 degrees Fahrenheit (41 degrees Celsius) killed more than 700 people. Most of the deaths […]

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