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With the temperature well over 100 degrees, Spokane firefighter Sean Condon, left, and Lt. Gabe Mills, assigned to the Alternative Response Unit from Station 1, check on the welfare of a man in Mission Park in Spokane, Wash., on Tuesday, June 29, 2021. The special fire department unit, which responds to low-priority calls, has been busy during this week's heat wave. (Colin Mulvany/Spokesman-Review via AP)

With the temperature well over 100 degrees, Spokane firefighter Sean Condon, left, and Lt. Gabe Mills, assigned to the Alternative Response Unit from Station 1, check on the welfare of a man in Mission Park in Spokane, Wash., on Tuesday, June 29, 2021. The special fire department unit, which responds to low-priority calls, has been busy during this week's heat wave. (Colin Mulvany/Spokesman-Review via AP)

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Historic Northwest heat wave may have killed hundreds
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Historic Northwest heat wave may have killed hundreds

Hundreds of deaths in Canada, Oregon and Washington may have been caused by the historic heat wave that baked the Pacific Northwest and shattered all-time temperature records in usually temperate cities.