LondonEngland’s ambulances hit record demand in June.
Elderly, cardiac and renal patients bore the sharpest rise in emergencies.
Human thermoregulation fails abruptly past a threshold, turning a few extra degrees into a step change in emergency calls.
Wales’s ambulance service still hasn’t released comparable data from the same heatwave.
How each outlet framed it
- Carbon Brief leans critical
- uses FOI data to quantify June heatwave ambulance demand exceeding pandemic peaks and traditional winter season in multiple services
Sources: Carbon Brief