A woman died after becoming unconscious during a hike at Grand Canyon National Park as temperatures reached triple digits, officials say.
On Sunday at approximately 6:30 p.m., a U.S. park ranger received a report about a hiker who was in distress in the Tuweep area of Arizona's Grand Canyon National Park,Officials said a 57-year-old woman was on an 8-mile hike in the remote area of the park when she lost consciousness. "A ranger arrived on scene at approximately 1 a.m. on July 3 and pronounced the hiker deceased," the NPS said.The temperature at Tuweep was over 100 degrees on Sunday, NPS said.
About 35 million Americans are on alert for dangerously high temperatures heading into the Fourth of July, with the center of the heat dome over the West.
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