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Beating The Heat

Cooling centers in Bend, Redmond and Madras provide a place for unhoused people to escape the blistering heat
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On June 25 Deschutes County encouraged locals to take precautions against the extreme wave of heat cooking the Pacific Northwest. Temperatures reached as high as 108 degrees on Sunday and forecasts predict daytime highs over 100 until Wednesday. The county asked people to avoid the outdoors between 3-7pm, the hottest part of the day, something […]

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Two Dead at Hunnell Campsite

Two people died, presumably from the extreme heat, in the area popular for houseless campers Sunday
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Update, 7/2/21: The Oregon State Medical Examiner confirmed that two people died from the extreme heat wave. Both were male, one was 64 and the other was 60. Two men died on Sunday at the camp on Hunnell Road as Bend surpassed its highest June temperature in recorded history, and on Tuesday its highest temperature […]

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