A welcoming sign is seen on the door of the Hillcrest Community Centre, where people can cool off during the extreme hot weather in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
VANCOUVER – Inside one of Vancouver’s 25 air-conditioned cooling centers on Wednesday, visitors quietly read books or worked on laptops as the death toll in Canada’s British Columbia province rose into the hundreds from a record-smashing heat wave.
“We’ve had heat waves before, but not to this extent,” said Lou, who provided only her first name. “I’m shocked by how many deaths there have been.”
“I have no air conditioning, only a fan at home — I came here just to work where it’s cool.”
Canada’s westernmost province has been scorched for days by record-smashing heat that reached 49.5 degrees Celsius (121 degrees Fahrenheit) in Lytton, three…
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