Alejandra Borunda

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325 appearances 5 recordings 2 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 4 Sep

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Yeah.

And a lot of their stories were just absolutely heartbreaking.

And they r really stuck with me.

And one of the reasons why was because a lot of them were so, so avoidable.

One thing I heard over and over was about how someone's AC or swamp cooler would break and they couldn't afford to fix it.

And then that turned into an actual death sentence.

And that's what happened to Sherry Petty.

She was a woman who lived in Tucson, Arizona, and her daughter, Tara Gettner, told me about it.

house was boiling hot, and Sherry Petty died later that day.

Tara is still totally consumed with grief a year later.

Oh man.

And I wanna be clear here, Sherry's death actually was counted because it was so obviously affected by heat.

But there were a lot of other people I talked to who went through something similar and whose loved ones' deaths weren't counted.

Yeah, it's a really good question.

And it's been interesting to wrap my head around because it's sort of a small number and a big number at the same time.

Compared to the death toll of something like cardiovascular disease, which is the leading cause of death in the country, it's not huge.

But it's a big number because, well, like we said before, it's way more than we knew, five times higher.

And it's way, way more than is officially reported for other kinds of natural disasters like hurricanes or wildfire.

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