It hit 120 degrees in this California town. For the homeless, ‘it’s a miserable life out here’ [latimes.com]

Jenna Quinn (PACEs Connection Staff) 7/27/2312:18 PM

^{Charles Johnson, 52, gulps down a third bottle of water on an extremely hot day in Blythe, Calif. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)}

By Ruben Vives and Akiya Dillon, Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2032

At a homeless encampment dubbed the Lost City, hidden behind a cluster of pine trees off Highway 95, Charles Johnson was sweltering.

He was drenched in sweat, worsening the heat rash on his back and arms. His sunburned skin ached.

He was hungry. He was desperate for water. And he yearned for ice — which he can’t keep from melting while living outside, under the unforgiving desert sun.

It was Thursday morning — not yet noon — and the temperature already was in the triple digits in this impoverished desert town of 18,000 on the California and Arizona border.

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