Sentences with phrase «died without air conditioning»
An expert witness testified that portable coolers actually made things worse in a Hollywood, Fla. nursing home where patients died without air conditioning during Hurricane Irma.
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Representatives of the Hollywood nursing home where a shocking number of people died after days without air conditioning have said they acted prudently in not evacuating the building.
Unapproved work was done without city permits to the air conditioning and back - up generator systems at the Hollywood Hills nursing home where several residents died when power to the air conditioning system failed during Hurricane...
Without electricity for air conditioning, heavy - coat pets will die of heat stroke in hot climates.
One study estimates that there are likely to be places on Earth where unprotected humans without cooling mechanisms, such as air conditioning, would die in less than six hours if global average surface temperature rises by about 12.6 ° F (7 ° C).16 With warming of 19.8 - 21.6 ° F (11 - 12 ° C), this same study projects that regions where approximately half of the world's people now live could become intolerable.7
This was vividly illustrated in France in 2003, when thousands without access to air conditioning died during a heat wave.