Arizona county probes 53 suspected heat wave deaths in a week

Website data shows Arizona's Maricopa county is investigating 53 suspected heat wave deaths over the week to June 19, when record-shattering temperatures across the U.S. Southwest threatened to push power systems to the brink of failure. As the Oregon cities of Portland and Salem and Seattle in Washington set new temperature records on Monday, fuelled by a heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, data on the Arizona county's website showed a jump in deaths under investigation. Three deaths in the county of more than 4.5 million people had been confirmed to be heat related until June 19.

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