When Arizona’s summer heat intensifies, home is supposed to be a place to cool off. But some renters in Glendale say their apartments have become dangerously hot as air conditioning repeatedly fails during a heat wave.
What’s happening?
Inside some units at Spectra Apartments in Glendale, residents say temperatures can rise past 100 degrees when the cooling cuts out. In reporting from AZFamily, tenant Sandy Bispo described spending the last year getting through those outages with fans, chilled rags, and spray bottles filled with cold water.
“It gets so bad sometimes we can’t breathe. The heat is so, so extreme,” Bispo said.
Bispo said the heat has also endangered her pet…