Visitors to Las Vegas on Friday stepped out momentarily to snap photos and were hit by blast-furnace air. But most will spend their vacations in a vastly different climate -- at casinos where the chilly air conditioning might require a light sweater.
Meanwhile, emergency room doctors were witnessing another world, as dehydrated construction workers, passed-out elderly residents and others suffered in an intense heat wave threatening to break the city's all-time record high of 117 degrees Fahrenheit this weekend.
Nearly a third of Americans were under extreme heat advisories, watches and warnings. The blistering heat wave was forecast to get worse this weekend for Nevada, Arizona and California, where desert temperatures were predicted to soar in parts past 120 degrees Fahrenheit during the day, and remain in the 90s F overnight.
His daughter, Kathy Zhagui, 20, offered her recipe for relief: "Probably just water, ice cream, staying inside." "This weekend there will be some of the most serious and hot conditions we've ever seen," said David Hondula the city's chief heat officer. "I think that it's a time for maximum community vigilance.""We're getting a lot of heat-related illness now, a lot of dehydration, heat exhaustion," said Dr. Ashkan Morim, who works in the ER at Dignity Health Siena Hospital in suburban Henderson.
The Southern Nevada Health District said seven people have died since April 11, and a total of 152 deaths last year were determined to be heat-related. In Sacramento, the California State Fair kicked off with organizers canceling planned horseracing events due to concerns for animal safety.
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