{"id":2771,"date":"2026-07-04T11:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2026-07-04T11:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:11:09","slug":"brutal-heatwave-in-france-is-killing-2000-people-per-week-undertakers-are-overwhelmed-and-health-agency-says-theres-worse-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2771","title":{"rendered":"Brutal heatwave in France is killing 2,000 people per week, undertakers are overwhelmed, and health agency says there\u2019s worse to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The updated tally of deaths from Public Health France spans the week of June 22 to June 28, during which France saw its hottest-ever days and records shattered for peak daytime and nighttime temperatures in many cities and towns across the country. The heat also\u00a0broke temperature records\u00a0in many other parts of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2770\">Media leadership unity in defying Trump\u2019s assault on Free speech: standing tall against historic comparisons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Public Health France said it has counted 8,973 deaths so far for that week, cautioning that the number is still only partial. It said the preliminary total was 29% more than the 6,948 deaths registered for the previous week of June 15 to June 21, when the heat wave started.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The difference between the two sets of figures \u2014 a total so far of 2,025 \u2014 is therefore considered to be additional deaths from one week to the next, from all causes and covering all age groups, it said.<\/p>\n<p>At the Paris-Saclay Hospital, patients suffering from heat exposure started arriving in a surge on June 20, Dr. Nicolas Gonzales, head of the emergency department, told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>He said they treated heat victims for heart attacks, dehydration, kidney malfunctions and other heat-related problems, from children to older people living alone.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2768\">Three dads started selling hats from a garage with $750\u2014now they\u2019ve sold $35 million worth, partnered with Gary Vee, and grown a community of fathers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Public Health France said there was a particularly sharp increase week-on-week in the number of deaths in private homes, with those figures up 91%. Deaths in care homes for older people increased by 37% and in hospitals by nearly 20%.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Paris region appears to have been\u00a0hit hardest, with a nearly 63% increase in deaths from one week to the next, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The health agency cautioned that its tallies underestimate the true death toll, because they\u2019re based on incomplete data.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe mortality will as a consequence be higher than these first figures,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2766\">On Wall Street, analysts increasingly don\u2019t believe the U.S. government\u2019s \u2018misleading\u2019 job numbers<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funeral service directors have said they\u2019ve struggled to find places to store bodies before burial or cremation, with\u00a0some\u00a0saying they had to turn bodies away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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