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Eventdex · Heat & Excessive Heat

IRON

643868

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Event typeevent_typeHeat
NOAA NCEI event IDncei_event_id643,868
Episode IDepisode_id107,393
Begin UTCbegin_utc2016-07-08T21:00:00+00:00
End UTCend_utc2016-07-08T21:00:00+00:00
StatestateWISCONSIN
County/zone typecz_typeZ
County/zone namecz_nameIRON
Deaths directdeaths_direct0
Deaths indirectdeaths_indirect0
Injuries directinjuries_direct0
Injuries indirectinjuries_indirect1
Weather forecast office sourcewfo_sourceEmergency Manager
Episode narrativeepisode_narrativeA 79-year-old man with medical complications died in his trailer after a recent heat wave. The cause of death was listed as cardiac arrhythmia secondary to dehydration. He had a history of hypertension, which was treated with medication, and he was a smoker. He had a syncopal episode one month prior to his death when sitting at picnic table by his trailer home. He had been working on window replacements and remodeling the interior. The following day he went to the emergency department for work up, was found to be mildly dehydrated.| |The trailer home he was working on is located in the Kimball Township of Iron County Wisconsin. The date of death was July 8, 2016. He was found July 9, 2016. The exact time of death is unknown, but thought to be late afternoon. There was a single small room fan running in the trailer.||It was in the upper 60s and low 70s the day he died, but it had been well into the 80s a few days earlier. ||The heat was a contributing factor along with insufficient ventilation and proper re-hydration.
Event narrativeevent_narrativeA 79-year-old man with medical complications died in his trailer home during a heat wave. The cause of death was listed as cardiac arrhythmia secondary to dehydration. He had a history of hypertension, which was treated with medication, and he was a smoker. He had a syncopal episode one month prior to his death when sitting at picnic table by his trailer home. He had been working on window replacements and remodeling the interior. The following day he went to the emergency department for work up, was found to be mildly dehydrated. ||The trailer home he was working on is located in the Kimball Township of Iron County Wisconsin. The date of death was July 8, 2016. He was found July 9, 2016. The exact time of death is unknown, but thought to be late afternoon. There was a single small room fan running in the trailer. ||The heat was a contributing factor along with insufficient ventilation and proper re-hydration.
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