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The lawn chair in which Judy Reiber was sunbathing when she died from environmental heat stress at the Henderson home she shared with her husband, Tim Reiber, is seen on Sept. 24, 2024. Judy Reiber was one of 402 people who died from heat-related illnesses this past summer, marking the deadliest heat year on record for Las Vegas since the coroner’s office began to consider heat a contributing cause of death in 2021. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @rookie__rae

main-img — The lawn chair in which Judy Reiber was sunbathing when she died from environmental heat stress at the Henderson home she shared with her husband, Tim Reiber, is seen on Sept. 24, 2024. Judy Reiber was one of 402 people who died from heat-related illnesses this past summer, marking the deadliest heat year on record for Las Vegas since the coroner’s office began to consider heat a contributing cause of death in 2021. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @rookie__rae

A Fatal Forecast

Sin City is reeling from a record summer, with extreme heat killing more of its residents than ever before. In “A Fatal Forecast,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal takes a temperature on who has been lost this year and what’s to come as population booms and leaders brainstorm solutions to what scientists agree is a burgeoning crisis.

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Summers are getting more unbearable by the year, and Las Vegas is months away from having a final heat-related death count for 2024.

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The party capital of the United States is rapidly becoming a hot spot for heat- related deaths — something officials are beginning to better tally. It’s not an exact science.

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As the number of heat-related deaths swells every year, efforts are increasing across the public and nonprofit sector to make Southern Nevada more habitable during periods of extreme heat.

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