A welcoming sign is seen on the door of the Hillcrest Community Centre where they can cool off during the extreme hot weather in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 30, 2021. - Inside one of Vancouver's 25 air-conditioned cooling centres on Wednesday, visitors quietly read books or worked on laptops as the death toll in Canada's British Columbia province rose into the hundreds from a record-smashing heat wave.
"We've had heat waves before, but not to this extent," said Lou, who provided only her first name. "I'm shocked by how many deaths there have been." (Photo by Don MacKinnon / AFP) (Photo by DON MACKINNON/AFP via Getty Images)