(CNN) The Pacific Northwest heat wave in late June was a mass casualty event, officials said. Hundreds of people likely died in the multi-day, record-breaking heat, and the death toll continues to rise. At least 83 people died from heat-related illness in Oregon, and officials are investigating another 32 deaths. They were hundreds of quiet deaths from an invisible disaster: unprecedented heat, which dozens of scientists concluded was "virtually impossible" without climate change. "Our brains are highly tuned to pictures of destruction, because we don't want that to happen to us.

Source: CNN July 13, 2021 01:07 UTC