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![At California Cartage near the Port of Long Beach, 68-year-old Jose Rodriguez said it gets hot inside the shipping containers. At California Cartage near the Port of Long Beach, 68-year-old Jose Rodriguez said it gets hot inside the shipping containers.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_list_thumbnail/public/title_images/HeatWorker-1180x664.jpg?itok=sUO6MXxK)
This story was produced as a project for the 2018 Impact Fund.
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"The biggest thing I learned about people who were reluctant to talk: Emotion affects how people talk about their health, so hearing what they have to say in person matters a great deal."
![A sign is posted on the Paradise Skilled Nursing Center as it is consumed by flames from the Camp Fire on November 8, 2018. A sign is posted on the Paradise Skilled Nursing Center as it is consumed by flames from the Camp Fire on November 8, 2018. (Jus](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_list_thumbnail/public/title_images/GettyImages-1059414734-1200x787.jpg?itok=EoMrfoTo)
A deadly and growing threat to nursing home patients remains overlooked: extreme heat.
![We placed a sensor inside the home of Cristina Sanchez (L) and her husband Felino Chanax (next to L), in Maywood, in southeast Los Angeles. The hottest their home got was 97 degrees. Also pictured are producers Miguel Vargas (next to Chanax) and Osvaldo Pedroza. (Photo: Molly Peterson/KQED) We placed a sensor inside the home of Cristina Sanchez (L) and her husband Felino Chanax (next to L), in Maywood, in southeast L](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_list_thumbnail/public/title_images/IMG_5974-1180x885.jpg?itok=w-WUB7eC)
Molly is one of the recipients of the 2018 Impact Fund, a program of USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism....
![A woman died last year in a heat wave in this normally cool and foggy west side San Francisco neighborhood. But Parkside, like everywhere around the Bay Area, is changing as heat waves last longer and spike higher. A woman died last year in a heat wave in this normally cool and foggy west side San Francisco neighborhood. But Parkside, like e](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_list_thumbnail/public/title_images/Colleens-block.jpg?itok=rrlSk9Cz)
Molly is one of the recipients of the 2018 Impact Fund, a program of USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism.
Molly is one of the recipients of the 2018 Impact Fund, a program of USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism.
![Colleen Loughman with one of her two cats, when she was a student in the 1950s at Holy Names University in Oakland. Loughman died in September 2017 from the heat, a day after San Francisco hit a record 106 degrees. (Photo: Barbara McGovern) Colleen Loughman with one of her two cats, when she was a student in the 1950s at Holy Names University in Oakland. Loughman die](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_list_thumbnail/public/title_images/Loughman-and-cat-1-e1539629845897.jpg?itok=e9wybPEG)
Molly is one of the recipients of the 2018 Impact Fund, a program of USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism.
![Douglas Mundo, co-director of Shore Up Marin, at an apartment complex on the San Rafael canal, which is vulnerable to sea level rise. (Photo: Lauren Hanussak/KQED) Douglas Mundo, co-director of Shore Up Marin, at an apartment complex on the San Rafael canal, which is vulnerable to sea level](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_list_thumbnail/public/title_images/sealevel4-1180x787.jpg?itok=6GqIAKAO)
Molly is one of the recipients of the 2018 Impact Fund, a program of USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism.
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Thanks to climate change, the health hazard posed by extreme heat is growing. And practical solutions aren't meeting the challenge so far.
![Francisca said that she and her husband were “like animals, hiding from the heat.” They both have heart problems worsened by heat. Her North Hollywood apartment has a window air conditioner that she says is expensive to run, and rats use it to get into the house. Francisca said that she and her husband were “like animals, hiding from the heat.”](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_list_thumbnail/public/title_images/unnamed_126.jpg?itok=RwmKuTMc)
Climate change is making the problem of urban heat a growing health risk. But reporting on the scope of the problem is full of challenges, as Molly Peterson explains.