PHOENIX — The one factor hotter than the 2024 presidential race is the desert in June.
Attendees ready in line for former President Donald Trump’s Thursday city corridor hosted by Turning Level Motion had been dealing with 102-degree warmth and rising — with some collapsing and rushed to hospital.
The day’s excessive temperature is predicted to be 110 levels.
A handful of attendees collapsed outdoors the venue and had been wheeled off by first responders, ABC 15 Arizona reported.
Eleven have been hospitalized thus far, based on 12News.
The Nationwide Climate Service issued an extreme warmth warning till Friday evening for the Phoenix metropolitan space.
“Overexposure could cause warmth cramps and warmth exhaustion to develop and, with out intervention, can result in warmth stroke,” the warning states.
Doorways opened for the occasion at 10 a.m., however some attendees began ready in line earlier in hopes of getting seat to see the previous president.
The rally is in north Phoenix’s giant indoor Dream Metropolis Church.
Maricopa County had 645 heat-related deaths in 2023, per the county.
The occasion is projected to herald greater than 3,000 folks, as it’s Trump’s comeback cease after being convicted within the Stormy Daniels hush-money trial in Manhattan final week.
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