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Historic Northwest heat wave may have killed hundreds

by Jim MorrisAndrew Selsky
| June 30, 2021 9:33 PM

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Hundreds of deaths in Canada, Oregon and Washington may have been caused by the historic heat wave that baked the Pacific Northwest and shattered all-time temperature records in usually temperate cities.

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