The woman died on the sidewalk on a day when temperatures reached 116 F in her home city of Portland.
KGW and other news outlets in the state had been requesting the data in order to learn more about the deaths, including information regarding the type of housing where the victims lived and whether or not they had air conditioning.The cause of her death was hyperthermia—abnormally high body temperature caused by a failure of the body's heat-regulating mechanisms to keep it cool in hot environments.
Maddox had passed out on the street, one house down from the adult foster care home where she was living after being dropped off in the neighborhood by a medical transport service that takes patients to and from appointments. Several people tried to help Maddox, and paramedics arrived at the scene, but they were not able to revive her.
"Ashlyn was a good person. She was a beautiful human being. As far as her family, I'm pretty sure they are devastated. She was really close with her grandma," a friend of Maddox's, Heidi Hall, told KGW."She had so much life left in her. She was taken way too soon." Among the others who died during the historic Oregon heat wave was 67-year-old Jollene"Jolly" Brown whose
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