"I wish it was someone else that was here talking about my contact burn and not myself," 71-year-old Robert Woolley, a retired teacher and Navy fighter pilot told a news channel in Arizona.
"Hurricanes are terrible. Earthquakes are terrible. But actually, heat is the number one killer now."
In June, a coalition petitioned FEMA to reconsider the exclusion of heat and wildfire smoke in emergency responses, highlighting heat as the number one killer in climate emergencies.
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