Outdoor graduation ceremony becomes ‘mass casualty incident’ as over 150 people fall ill to extreme heat: ‘I couldn’t breathe’
Several high school graduations in New Jersey were postponed after excessive heat during a two-part ceremony Monday caused what the Paterson city fire chief declared a “mass casualty incident,” according to the Guardian. What’s happening? A “heat dome” began to descend on vast swaths of the Northeast and Midwest on Sunday, and over 100 million…