![]() ![]() ![]() “What we’ve heard so many times in these nine deaths I’ve seen this week is ‘Well, he knew it was hot and he was going to get the air conditioner fixed’ or ‘Oh no, he says he’s been through this many times he said he was going to be OK,’” she said. Stern warned residents at Monday’s meeting to protect themselves and to check on elderly relatives and neighbors. The temperature in Laredo was 105 degrees with a heat index of 110 degrees as of 6:30 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. ![]() NBC News was unable to immediately reach the medical examiner’s office after business hours. The Associated Press, citing Stern, today reported two additional deaths in Webb County, which is on the U.S.-Mexico border. “These are unprecedented temperatures here.” And I think our county was caught a little off guard,” Dr. Laredo knows heat, Webb County knows heat. The blistering heat in Webb County, Texas, has led to the deaths of at least nine people in eight days, the medical examiner said at a county government meeting Monday. ![]()
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