High temperatures leave 21 dead in Morocco // Due to extreme weather conditions, the government in Iran orders a halt to activities
▲ A house is consumed by the largest California wildfire of the year.Afp Photo
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The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, July 28, 2024, p. 24
Sacramento. Thousands of firefighters were battling a raging wildfire in California – north of the city of Chico and north of the capital, Sacramento – yesterday, which has grown exponentially in size, burning an area almost the size of Los Angeles.
Park It is the largest conflagration in that state so far this year. Its intensity and dramatic expansion led authorities to compare it to the gigantic Camp, which spiraled out of control in the nearby town of Paradise in 2018, killing 85 people and destroying 11,000 homes.
So far, more than 130 structures have been destroyed by the fire and thousands more are at risk, while evacuations have been ordered in Butte, Plumas, Tehama and Shasta counties.
There’s a tremendous amount of fuel out there, and it’s going to continue at this very rapid pace.Billy See, incident commander for the California Fire Department, said in a briefing.
Lassen Volcanic National Park officials evacuated staff from Mineral, a community of about 120 residents where the park’s headquarters are located, as the flames moved north toward Highway 36 and east.
The fire, which remains out of control despite the efforts of firefighters, has already claimed the life of a pilot, whose plane crashed while fighting the blaze.
A Grant County search and rescue team located the aircraft Friday morning and confirmed the death of the occupant, said Lisa Clark, the information officer for the aircraft. Falls from the Bureau of Land Management.
Without air conditioning
Meanwhile, at the main hospital in Beni Mellal, Morocco, 21 heat-related deaths occurred as temperatures rose to 48.3 degrees Celsius in the region of 575,000 people, most of whom are surviving in the environment without air conditioning.
Most of the deaths occurred in individuals suffering from chronic diseases and in the elderly, as high temperatures contributed to the deterioration of their health and led to death.explained Kamal Elyansli, regional health director, in a statement.
In Pakistan, Humayun Saeed, a 35-year-old fruit seller in Lahore, the country’s cultural capital, said: We don’t need any scientist to tell us what the temperature is outside, because our body tells us that instantly.This trader had to go to the hospital twice in June due to heat stroke.
Meanwhile, a wave of high temperatures hitting the whole of Iran forced the authorities to reduce the operating hours of various facilities and order all government and commercial institutions to close today. The state news agency IRNA reported that due to the extreme weather conditions, only emergency services and medical agencies will be working.
Babak Yektaparast, a spokesman for the country’s emergency department, told the semi-official Mehr news agency that 225 people had to seek medical help for heat stroke, adding that some had to be hospitalized.
Mehr also quoted Sadegh Ziaian, an official at the National Meteorological Organization, as saying that temperatures reached over 45 degrees Celsius in 10 Iranian provinces, with the highest temperature of 49.7 degrees Celsius recorded in the past 24 hours in Dalgan in the southeast.
The official added that a decline in weather was expected tomorrow, but still warned that This does not mean that the air will cool down..
Iranian media warned people to stay indoors until 5 p.m.
