Woman Hospitalized After Heat-Related Illness: Austin EMS

AUSTIN, TX — A woman was transported to an area hospital after suffering from a heat-related medical issue on Sunday afternoon, medics said.

The victim, a woman in her 50s, fell ill along wilderness area along the Camp Craft Road access to a green belt at around 4 p.m. Temperatures were in the high 90s on Sunday afternoon, at around 96 degrees when the emergency call was made but with a heat index making it feel some four to five degrees hotter.

The woman was transported to a hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, according to medics.

It's the second such incident in as many days in Austin in the same location. On Saturday, a man in his 50s also fell victim to the scorching heat while hiking along the Barton Creek green belt along the 1700 Camp Craft Rd. shortly after 1 p.m. The wilderness in which the man hiked complicated medics' efforts to extricate him, ultimately doing so with the aid of a wheeled contraption outfitted with a stretcher.

The man was rushed to Seton Medical Center for non-life-threatening injuries. The two latest incidents bring to 20 the number of cases of heat-related emergencies to which medics have had to respond in the past week, Austin-Travis County EMS medics previously said.

Summer doesn't start officially until June 21, but temperatures are already oppressively hot as they inch closure to triple-digit territory. The number of people already felled by the high temps in the past week dramatically illustrate the need for people to take precautions, with bottled water at the ready to stay hydrated and other safeguards.

Read the story below for tips from the Mayo Clinic on how to avoid heat-related sickness.

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