Sacramento County Confirms Another Heat-Related Death as Record-Setting Era Ends

Earlier this month, a Sacramento man died of heatstroke, the second confirmed heat-related death in Sacramento County this year.

Albert G. Edadiz, 77, died July 12 at UC Davis Medical Center after being “hospitalized for an extended period of time,” according to a Sacramento County news release, which noted that the man “was not homeless at the time of his death.”

Edadiz died at the end of the warmest 20-day period ever recorded in Sacramento.

The coroner did not perform an autopsy due to the prolonged hospital stay. It is not clear how long Edadiz was in the hospital.

The county was not immediately available to answer follow-up questions from The Sacramento Bee.

Edadiz’s death came less than a week after the Sacramento County coroner’s office confirmed that 58-year-old Kevin Gerhardt died of heatstroke in his North Sacramento mobile home, as temperatures in the city reached 106 degrees that day.

Another person, Steven Jerome “Snoop” Easley, who was homeless, died in his tent on July 4, according to previous Bee reporting. The coroner’s office had not released Easley’s cause of death as of Tuesday. The city reached 109 degrees on the holiday.