The Big Fix: Emergency services in a warming world
by editors@theworld.org (Hannah Chanatry) from The World: Latest Stories on (#78044)
Five years ago, a heat dome stretched across British Columbia, Canada, killing more than 600 people. The paramedics trying to respond to emergency calls were unprepared to operate at that level of heat. But hot conditions are increasingly normal in places where they didn't used to be. For The Big Fix, The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Brooks Hogya, an academic, paramedic and member of BC's heat advisory committee, about the lessons BC took from the heat dome.