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Hospitals in Europe are gearing up for the next heat wave armed with lessons from this one

The Washington Post · last updated

ORSAY, France — Ice. Urgently and in large quantities.

At a Paris-region hospital, emergency medics needed it to plunge patients into cold-water baths to speedily bring down their temperatures so they wouldn’t join the growing tally of dead from a record-smashing heat wave . But lacking an ice-making machine, where to get it?