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Some states act to protect residents from extreme heat — with a new focus on young people

A person covers their head while trying to stay cool in “The Zone,” a vast homeless encampment where hundreds of people reside, during a record heat wave in Phoenix, Arizona on July 18, 2023. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)
A person covers their head while trying to stay cool in “The Zone,” a vast homeless encampment where hundreds of people reside, during a record heat wave in Phoenix, Arizona on July 18, 2023. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)
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Nationally, heat-related deaths rose from about 1,000 in 2018 to 1,722 in 2022 and 1,784 so far in 2023.

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