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Miami is Used to Heat, but Not Like This
The county’s chief heat officer—the first in the world—strives to raise awareness about the dangers of heat, the leading weather-related killer in the U.S.
By Amy Green
MIAMI—Heat is a familiar fact of life here. The local NBA team is named for it. The tropical nature of it sets the region apart from the rest of the continental U.S. But that heat is changing.
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