“We did everything right and she survived — and then we had that stupid heat wave and that almost took her life," Aslin said. “Definitely the Pacific Northwest is not used to those temps, and so they’re more vulnerable,” he said. When a shorter and less intense heat wave struck last weekend, authorities applied some of the easiest lessons. “We hadn’t experienced an event like that before, so we were working off potential impacts,” said Andrew Phelps, director of Oregon Emergency Management. “We did more for this heat emergency than any heat emergency we’ve ever responded to, but it doesn’t mean that we did enough.”———Follow Flaccus on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/gflaccus.

Source: ABC News August 05, 2021 17:26 UTC