June 30, 2021 19:54 PM
Canada encounters record high temperatures
Under record-breaking high temperatures, British Columbia (also translated as British Columbia) in western Canada has reported dozens of sudden deaths.
A rare heat wave has swept through the western provinces of Canada starting this past weekend. Burnaby police in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, disclosed to the media on the 29th that they had received 25 reports of sudden deaths within two days, many of which were elderly people. Although the cause of death of these dead has yet to be finalized, the police believe that most of them were caused by extreme heat. Police in nearby Surrey City received nearly 40 death reports within a day and a half. The Health Department of British Columbia stated that it has received more than 100 calls for help related to heat stroke in the past three days.
Environment Canada has continuously issued high and even extreme high temperature warnings to British Columbia, Alberta and most of Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories and Yukon for several days. On June 28, the “historical” heat wave broke more than 100 high temperature records in these provinces and regions. Among them, the village of Lytton in the southern inland of British Columbia broke the original high temperature record of 84 years in Canada on the 27th, and set the record again with the highest temperature of 47.9 degrees Celsius the next day.
On the evening of the 28th, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reminded people in extreme heat to pay attention to the safety of themselves and their neighbors through social platforms.
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