Hiker dies as US heatwave hits record temperature of 118F

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>A woman has died after collapsing while hiking and mountain biking during a record-breaking heatwave in Phoenix&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fire officials said the 28-year-old started biking with two friends and stopped breathing a few hours later&period; Crews said her condition appeared to have been heat-related&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The woman&comma; an avid hiker and personal trainer who had no known medical issues&comma; was flown to hospital where she died&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The National Weather Service said temperatures hit 118F&comma; breaking a record of 115F for June 19&comma; set nearly 50 years ago<br &sol;>&NewLine;Portions of Arizona and south-east California are expected to keep getting scorched with a high pressure ridge lifting out of Mexico&period; The weather service forecast temperatures will drop to 113F on Tuesday and stay below 115F for the rest of the week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Phoenix did not reach 120F as forecasters said was possible&comma; but Yuma&comma; in the south-west corner of Arizona&comma; did&period; National Weather Service meteorologist Andrew Deemer said he had &&num;8220&semi;no doubt there are places in the Valley that hit 120F or so&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The woman&&num;8217&semi;s death came a day after a 25-year-old Phoenix man died of heat exposure while hiking in neighbouring Pinal County&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In California&comma; the districts of Burbank and Glendale&comma; just north of central Los Angeles&comma; soared past 100F&comma; the National Weather Service said&period; Burbank saw a record 105F&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That heat was no help to firefighters who had to work to put out a wildfire in a Los Angeles neighbourhood&comma; where densely packed homes were briefly in danger&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Further north west in the San Fernando Valley&comma; some thermometers were reading close to 110F&comma; and Palm Springs in the inland desert hit 115F&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The heat spurred state regulators to urge residents to voluntarily cut their consumption of electricity&comma; but it has not yet brought the rolling blackouts that southern Californians have been told to expect this summer after a massive natural gas leak&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Crews beat back the blaze in the Silver Lake neighbourhood of LA after it damaged two homes&comma; destroyed three sheds&comma; scorched yards and sent trees up in flames&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Neighbours scrambled with garden hoses and buckets&comma; while water-dumping helicopters and scores of firefighters chased embers and doused steep hillsides to keep the flames from spreading&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The blaze only charred eight acres&comma; but it put urban residents on alert to the hot&comma; dry conditions that have helped wildfires spread rapidly across more remote places from the California coast to New Mexico&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A fire that has burned 12 square miles west of Santa Barbara stayed in check&comma; but firefighters braced for the return of gusts that fanned the flames earlier in the week&comma; threatening hundreds of homes and leading to evacuations of popular coastal campgrounds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In New Mexico&comma; a 28-square-mile fire that erupted last week and destroyed 24 homes in the Manzano Mountains south of Albuquerque was largely uncontained&comma; but higher humidity allowed crews to strengthen lines around the fire and keep a lookout for hot spots where flames could jump the line&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In eastern Arizona&comma; a fire that has burned 19 square miles south west of Show Low advanced south&comma; but containment increased to 40&percnt;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; a new wildfire forced the evacuation of hundreds of people from a small town in the California desert near the Mexico border&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>State fire officials said the blaze had surged to nearly 1&period;5 square miles amid triple-digit temperatures&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An evacuation was ordered for the community of Potrero&comma; a town of about 600 people along State Route 94&comma; a few miles north of Tecate&comma; Mexico&comma; and about 40 miles south east of San Diego&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Red Cross has opened two community centres and a primary school for evacuees&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed368a828b2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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