{"id":237148,"date":"2026-07-07T01:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/237148\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T01:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:15:06","slug":"5-heat-related-deaths-recorded-in-philly-so-far-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/237148\/","title":{"rendered":"5 heat-related deaths recorded in Philly so far this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The Philadelphia Medical Examiner\u2019s office said four people have died from heat-related causes since July 1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/east-coast-heat-dome-forces-july-4-cancellations\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">when a heat dome over the East Coast<\/a> brought a string of days<a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/extreme-heat-philly-region-july-4-celebrations\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> with temperatures over 100 degrees<\/a> to the area.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Department has ended the heat emergency, but spokesman James Garrow said temperatures and humidity remain high enough to cause heat stress, especially for young children, older adults, pregnant women and those on certain medications.<\/p>\n<p>People in those groups should continue to take extra precautions.<\/p>\n<p>The deaths recorded during the last several days bring to five the number of heat-related deaths this year.<\/p>\n<p>Garrow said Philadelphia has seen five deaths in a single summer just four times in the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>In New Jersey, the scorching temps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/heat-deaths-new-jersey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">are suspected to have caused at least 25 deaths<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The Philadelphia Medical Examiner\u2019s office said four people have died from heat-related causes since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74472,102073,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-237148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-extreme-heat","tag-heat-related-deaths","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}