By BILL SANDERSON
June 12, 2008
Six New Yorkers were killed by this week's scorching four-day heat wave, the city medical examiner's office said yesterday.
Five of the dead were over 70. The sixth person was 57, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the office. Five of the victims were found on Tuesday, the heat wave's last day. The last victim was an 84-year-old man from Brooklyn who was declared dead just after midnight yesterday. All were killed by hyperthermia, the medical term for heat stroke.
Even as temperatures cooled down yesterday from the mid-90s to a more comfortable 85 degrees, power outages continued.
The Long Island Power Authority's 32,000 customers on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens lost electricity for as long as 45 minutes.
About 150 Con Ed customers were still without power in Riverdale and Allerton in the Bronx yesterday afternoon, the utility said.
Scattered outages left over from Tuesday's storm were also reported in Long Island and in Westchester County.
