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CBS47 KSEE24 published July 16, 2024: 'Nobody should have to die like that': Elderly couple in Fresno dies amid extreme heat wave.
KMPH FOX26 NEWS published July 16, 2024: Elderly couple found dead in Fresno home during triple digit temperatures. An elderly couple has died from the heat in Fresno, according to their daughter. Check on your neighbors!
Fox26 News, Fresno local
written by Sophia Lesseos
Monday July 15, 2024
FRESNO, California — An elderly couple has died from the heat in Fresno, according to their daughter.
Check on your neighbors.
That's the message an Oregon woman wants to share after her elderly parents were found dead in their Fresno home, she says, because of the extreme heat.
Rhonda Simengaard says it felt like an oven when she walked into her parents' Southeast Fresno home.
That's why she believes both her parents died because of the triple-digit temperatures last week.
"I mean, it really is in this heat here, this heat here, it doesn't matter how old you are. I'm not 85, and I'm telling you that first night here was awful," said Simengaard.
Her mother, Shelly, and her father, Bob, lived in Fresno for over 40 years.
Shelly had dementia, and Bob never put down a cigarette.
"I mean, you have a chain smoker, and you have somebody on oxygen, and then you put them in stifling air. You know they did the best they could," she said.
But they told their daughter, who lives in Oregon, they were okay.
In fact, their swap cooler stopped working, and their portable A-C was having issues.
That's when Bob and Shelly's neighbor noticed something was wrong.
"He hadn't seen it for a couple of days, but he was calling my mom, and my mom was saying that he was sleeping, so I just don't know how long he wasn't just sleeping," said Simengaard.
Simengaard believes her dad died because of a heat-related heart attack, and her mom passed a few days later while sleeping.
The day they were found, it was 108 degrees.
While the coroner's office couldn't confirm a cause of death, Fresno police say they were called to the house and found the couple dead last Tuesday evening.
"Everybody should check on everybody. There should be no question," said Simengaard. "Just to knock on the door. Hey, you guys doing okay? Is there anything I can get to you? Most of the time it's going to be a no, but it might walk. Into that one thing where they really need you, and you can make a difference."
Right now, she's struggling to pay for her parent's funeral costs because she just had a double hip surgery, she hasn't worked for a year, and her sister died last year.
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