{"id":123356,"date":"2026-07-23T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/frances-deadly-june-heatwave-caused-nearly-5800-excess-deaths-highest-toll-since-2003\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:36:08","slug":"frances-deadly-june-heatwave-caused-nearly-5800-excess-deaths-highest-toll-since-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/frances-deadly-june-heatwave-caused-nearly-5800-excess-deaths-highest-toll-since-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s deadly June heatwave caused nearly 5,800 excess deaths, highest toll since 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France recorded over five thousand excess deaths during a recent heatwave.  This extreme weather event caused the highest death toll since two thousand three.  Elderly individuals accounted for two-thirds of the total fatalities recorded.  Hospitals faced significant pressure from a surge in heat-related illnesses.  Scientists link these intense heatwaves to human-induced climate change.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France recorded over five thousand excess deaths during a recent heatwave. This extreme weather event caused the highest death toll since two thousand three. Elderly individuals accounted for two-thirds of the total fatalities recorded. Hospitals faced significant pressure from a surge in heat-related illnesses. Scientists link these intense heatwaves to human-induced climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":123357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}