![]() Volunteers with city of Phoenix’s heat response team hand out water and other supplies at an encampment during the heatwave. “We might have flash floods but heat is our issue.” “This is Arizona’s natural disaster,” Litwin said. On Wednesday, she and a crew of city workers and volunteers set up a booth at a sprawling homeless encampment to hand out cold water bottles, hygiene kits and other resources that, for those living on the streets, could potentially mean the difference between life and death. Litwin and her team are tasked with aiding the city’s most vulnerable during the city’s brutally hot months, a season that now stretches from April to September. “Phoenix has always been hot,” said Michelle Litwin, the city’s heat response program manager. If the heatwave continues as predicted, Phoenix will have endured an 18-day stretch of temperatures above 110F (43.3C) by Tuesday. ![]() The city is on track to break a grim milestone. ![]() But by day 12 of a vicious heatwave that’s sent temperatures soaring into triple digits, with little relief overnight, limits are being tested – and it’s only going to get hotter. ![]() Arizona’s capital city is nicknamed “Valley of the Sun”, and residents are used to scorching heat. ![]()
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