Africa Hot

AZnewb450 wrote:

Welcome to ARIZONA!

SteveS wrote:

Just so everyone can realize that you don't have to be in a motocross race to die of heatstroke, and that people need to be cognizant...

Just so everyone can realize that you don't have to be in a motocross race to die of heatstroke, and that people need to be cognizant of those around them when working in the heat, here's a sad story from Kentucky:

http://www.wdrb.com/story/15130505/developing-18-year-old-dies-of-heat-…

LOUISVILLE, KY – (WDR -- This heat wave claims its first victim in Kentuckiana - an 18-year-old from Sellersburg. Cody Johns just graduated from Silver Creek High school. This summer, he was working with his stepdad's lawn care service. Thursday, the crew was doing landscape work in the Brownsboro Glen neighborhood in Louisville. The temperature reached 96 degrees but the heat index hit 115 - turning the weather dangerous and deadly for Johns.

As the heat index approached 115 by 2 o'clock, Johns complained he was hot and sat down to rest under a shady tree. 2 hours later, Johns fellow co-workers notice he was having trouble speaking so they put him in an air conditioned truck to cool off and rushed him to Westport Village and the Norton Immediate Care Center. When Johns starts throwing up, the workers call 911. Lyndon Firefighters were first on the scene.

"They started to attempt to aggressively cool his body temperature by placing ice packs around his neck and under his arms," says Lyndon Fire Captain Rich Bliven says Johns had no vital signs. His co-workers were upset because they tried to get the teenager help at the Norton Immediate Care Center right at Westport Village

"Some of the lawn care employees that he was with had expressed that they had tired to get medical service at the Immediate Care Center and were told they could not get service or were denied service," says Bliven.

"We did not deny treatment to the individual in fact we never saw him in the immediate care center," says Norton's Chief Medical Officer Steven Hester. He says a co-worker came instead asking for help and was told by an employee to get Johns to a hospital. But Johns stepfather told the coroner a Norton employee did come out with a wheelchair took one look at Johns and said, "Get him to the hospital, we don't have the fluids."

Johns later died at the hospital. The coroner says it was a heat stroke and Johns core body temperature was at least 110 degrees causing his organs shutdown. Co-workers say Johns was staying hydrated, but doctors stress the importance of taking breaks too...even when working outside trying to find an air conditioned building for rest for second.

Funeral arraignments are still pending for Johns.

chrisbuehler wrote:

103 in Hartford, 100 in Providence. Tyla Rattray would say it's "Africa Hot". Discuss

elsinore wrote:

Any your point is? Sounds about like any typical summer day here in South Georgia. Hell, it's worse down in Florida or around Houston than it...

Any your point is? Sounds about like any typical summer day here in South Georgia. Hell, it's worse down in Florida or around Houston than it is here. Folks up north laugh at Southerners when we go ape shit over a dusting of snow. Turnabout is fairplay chris.