Only as evening fell would they emerge, after temperatures in the house had climbed so high that it was cooler outside.
His two young sons crammed into the bedroom with him to avoid the dangerous heat. The space was their only room with an air-conditioning unit, and the safest place in the house when temperatures outside soared above 40 ☌.Īll day, Rodriguez tapped on his computer, working remotely as a volunteer manager for TreePeople, a non-profit environmental organization in Beverly Hills, California, that plants and cares for trees across Los Angeles.
Luis Rodriguez holed up in his kids’ bedroom last month as a brutal heatwave baked his Los Angeles neighbourhood and the rest of the southwestern United States.
