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The Most Essential Worker in a Heat Wave? The A.C. Guy
While trying to cool brutally hot Phoenix, Roberto Guerrero and his sons endure sweltering attics, blazing rooftops and nonstop calls for help.
By Jack Healy
Jack Healy is a Phoenix-based national correspondent for The New York Times. He focuses on the fast-changing politics and climate of the Southwest. He has worked in Iraq and Afghanistan and is a graduate of the University of Missouri’s journalism school. He adopted a street cat from Baghdad and still has the scars on his hands to prove it.
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While trying to cool brutally hot Phoenix, Roberto Guerrero and his sons endure sweltering attics, blazing rooftops and nonstop calls for help.
By Jack Healy
As much of the South bakes, Phoenix blazed past a milestone set half a century ago for consecutive days with 110-degree or higher temperatures.
By Jacey Fortin and Mary Beth Gahan
Adriana Vance’s son was killed in a mass shooting at a nightclub in Colorado. As she prepared to address the killer, a reporter tried to tell her story with care.
By Jack Healy
A two-week stretch of 110-degree days sends the fire department scrambling to rescue people overcome by heat, and tests a force already accustomed to tough summers.
By Jack Healy
Arizona is used to scorching summers, but the region’s long stretch of days with 110-degree temperatures is straining patience and resources.
By Jack Healy
The Southwest has seen significantly less fire activity this year after an unusually wet winter and spring, but the danger is increasing.
By Jack Healy
Adriana Vance lost her son Raymond in a mass shooting seven months ago. The night before she would face the shooter in court, she still wasn’t sure what she would say.
By Jack Healy
A plea deal means the 23-year-old shooter will spend a lifetime in prison for a rampage at an L.G.B.T.Q. bar in Colorado Springs last year that left five people dead.
By Jack Healy and Kelley Manley
Just before they are set to face the accused shooter in court, some survivors of the Colorado mass shooting are frustrated over payouts from a fund to help them.
By Jack Healy and Kelley Manley
Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, says she is doing what she can to protect abortion rights in a state with a 15-week ban on the procedure.
By Jack Healy
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