AP: Street medicine teams search for homeless people to deliver lifesaving IV hydration in extreme heat
BY ANITA SNOW June 30, 2024 PHOENIX (AP) — Alfred Handley leaned back in his wheelchair alongside a major Phoenix freeway as a street medicine team helped him get rehydrated with an intravenous saline solution dripping from a bag hanging on a pole. Cars whooshed by under the blazing 96-degree morning sun as the 59-year-old homeless man […]
AP: Blazing hot surfaces are a danger for catastrophic burn injuries in the urban desert Southwest
BY ANITA SNOW July 3, 2024 PHOENIX (AP) — Ron Falk lost his right leg, had extensive skin grafting on the left one and is still recovering a year after collapsing on the searing asphalt outside a Phoenix convenience store where he stopped for a cold soda during a heat wave. Now using a wheelchair, […]
AZ Family: Mobile medical units care for homeless people during Arizona’s extreme temps
By Alaina Kwan Jul. 9, 2024 PHOENIX (AZFamily) — As the Valley endures more triple-digit temperatures during this heat wave, Circle the City has been ramping up heat-related illness treatments for people experiencing homelessness. The organization’s goal is to break down barriers to medical care, and one way it does that is through its five mobile medical units. Each […]
ABC 15: Circle the City hits the streets with IVs to help people amid extreme heat
Circle the City is dedicated to helping people living on the streets of Phoenix, and now they’re doing it with mobile IV clinics. The on-the-go health teams recently started administering IVs to people, aimed at treating dehydration and other health issues. The nonprofit group invited ABC15 to tag along on a route on Tuesday as […]