Extreme Heat Is Killing European Workers Despite Government Efforts
At the end of the shift, at around 9:30pm, she walked back home and asked her elderly mother to prepare dinner because she wasn't feeling well. She also messaged a friend and told him she felt cramps in her arms, chest and neck, her brother-in-law Manuel Ceacero told Bloomberg Green.
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Montse Aguilar was a healthy 51-year-old woman when she started her shift cleaning streets in Barcelona at around 2:30pm on June 28. The Spanish city was under alert for high temperatures amid a brutal heat wave that brought record temperatures for that time of the year across the country. She was responsible for sweeping one of the hottest, dirtiest and more touristic areas — the Raval district. At the end of the shift, at around 9:30pm, she walked back home and asked her elderly mother to prepare dinner because she wasn't feeling well. She also messaged a friend and told him she felt cramps in her arms, chest and neck, her brother-in-law Manuel Ceacero told Bloomberg Green.
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