Heat Wave Blamed for Child's Death - WSJ.com

A 10-year-old Brooklyn girl who died Saturday became the second victim of a heat wave that blanketed New York City last week, authorities said Tuesday.

The girl, whose name was not released, died of hyperthermia "due to exposure to high environmental temperature with underlying medical condition," the city medical examiner said in a statement.

Her existing medical condition wasn't disclosed. On Monday, the medical examiner ruled that a 94-year-old woman from Brooklyn who also died Saturday was a result of hyperthermia in addition to an "underlying natural disease."

The Reference Frame: Deadly New York heat wave kills 50 people a day

Just to be sure, it was 1911.

The fight for ice

It was a literally murderous heat wave. "As a consequence of the huge heat wave, additional 50 people died on the day before yesterday," Saturday's "National Politics" (a popular daily nicknamed "Politička", a female politician, in Prague).

New Yorkers were therefore trying to escape from the overheated city en masse. "Next to New York, two refugee camps have been built out of tents which attracted tens of thousands of people. One of them is near Pelham Bay, in the proximity of the sea, and another is on the Hudson River. It's relatively better in those areas."