The new record, 47.9 C, was set in Lytton, about a three-hour drive northeast of Vancouver. The extreme temperatures caused a ripple effect throughout the province’s emergency response system, overwhelming dispatchers, filling emergency departments and stretching ambulance wait times to hours....
Lapointe believes the extreme heat to have been the reason for the increase....
By Tuesday, it had responded to about 140.In neighbouring Burnaby, RCMP responded to at least 34 sudden death calls of t
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