On July 11, Logan Overcash said his Burnsville, Minnesota, apartment had become overwhelmingly hot. It was 90 degrees outside, and his unit wasn’t much cooler, experiencing what he described as yet another day where the apartment’s breaker box was tripping and shutting down.
Struggling himself, he noticed his dog, Kira, was looking worse and worse over the course of the day. He said he tried everything to get her to cool down before finally rushing her to the South Metro Animal Emergency Care hospital in Apple Valley, Minnesota. Logan Overcash provided WCCO with notes that a veterinarian shared with him, stating that Kira had died before she arrived at the animal hospital.
The vet went on to say that, in his opinion, “it is very likely that Kira died from heat stroke after becoming overheated in the apartment.”…