Marta Segura: Chilling voice in an overheating city

Marta Segura knows it can be hard to think of heat as an emergency in Los Angeles, either because you’ve got the air conditioner blasting and a cold drink in your hand, or because you don’t have enough money for food, let alone the electricity bill.

But she also knows that of all the natural disasters whipped up by a warming world, heat — the one she is tasked with confronting — has claimed more lives than any other climate-related cause.

Read more at the Los Angeles Times.