News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Heat in July proves deadly in Mexicali

By Maria Esparza
Aug 8, 2006

MEXICALI, Baja Calif. — A rescue shelter has been opened in this border city in the wake of 28 deaths in July that city officials have blamed on heat.

While the city government has not gone so far as to declare a state of emergency, it recently sought the help of the Mexican army, which activated a natural disaster plan that included the opening of the first of up to 48 shelters for residents who live in impoverished neighborhoods that are not currently served by power or running water.

Heat-related deaths also were reported in San Luis Rio Colorado, Son., where three men, ages 40, 57 and 60, died the week of July 23-30 in separate cases, according to the Sonora State Department of Public Health. Monthlong heat death totals for that city were not available.

One summer heat-related death also was reported in Los Algodones, Baja Calif.

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