Mexicali reports first heat-related death in 2025

MEXICALI, B.C. (KYMA, KECY) - Mexicali reported its first heat-related death in summer 2025. The victim, Juan, was from from Guadalajara.

Last Saturday, he was working at an auto repair shop in Colonia Santa Isabel when his death was reported.

Initially thought to be a crushing injury, the Forensic Medical Service confirmed it was heat stroke.

According to Dr. César González Vaca, head of the Ministry of Health, the young man tested positive for drug use, which was not the cause of his death, but it was a determining factor:

"It's not that he died directly from an overdose or from the substances themselves. There is a relationship. Obviously, when someone ingests a drug, their reality is altered, so they don't have a normal perception of the weather conditions and their general environment," said Dr. Vaca.

In 2024, 40 people died in Mexicali due to extreme heat.

This is the first heat-related death in 2025. However, during this same period, eight deaths had already been recorded.