As summer ends, Maricopa County is on track to see fewer heat-related deaths than last year

Payton Preslee has been homeless since 2010. He suffers from a number of health conditions, among them, vertigo. And for him, that’s the worst part about Phoenix’s extreme summer heat — it exacerbates symptoms like dizziness and lightheadedness.

“My vertigo does not like it,” Preslee said.

So Preslee avoided triple-digit temperatures this summer by spending almost every day at a cooling center in a warehouse building downtown run by the city…

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