Local officials in Utah, USA, reported that a 56-year-old woman died tragically after succumbing to higher temperatures and a lack of fluids at Quail Creek State Park. According to USA Today, the incident occurred on Sunday afternoon, when conditions reached a sweltering 106 degrees Celsius.
Officers were called to a frightened traveler near the area after being informed by the Hurricane City Police Department. Despite making life-saving efforts, the lady was discovered dead on the path and indifferent. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office, the Hurricane Valley Fire Department, and the State of Utah Department of Natural Resources were involved in the answer.
climbers across the Southwest have now lost a number of lives as a result of this year’s heat. In late June, 69-year-old Scott Sims from Austin, Texas, collapsed and died on a road in Grand Canyon National Park, where temperatures exceeded 90 degree Celsius.
In early July, 61-year-old Jurgen Fink from Germany perished in Death Valley National Park, and on July 13, 30-year-old Belyruth Ordóñez was found dead in Snow Canyon State Park, with her kids hospitalized for heat stress.
Also, a father and daughter trio, 52-year-old Albino Herrera Espinoza and 23-year-old Beatriz Herrera from Green Bay, Wisconsin, even lost their lives on July 12 at Canyonlands National Park after becoming lost and running out of water.
