‘I want to put you in a hot car:’ the day this reporter roasted
As the sweat ran down my head and my eyelids fell heavy, I started to wonder, ‘why am I doing this?’.
My discomfort grew as my joints started to hurt, my energy levels dropped and a headache came on. The air was thick and I could tell I was feeling the effects of near 50 C temperatures while trapped inside a hot car.
This, as Lyle Karasiuk, director of public affairs for Parkland Ambulance and paramedic Eden Shirley drank cold water and watched gleefully the results from the monitoring equipment strapped to my chest and arms.
I subjected myself to these conditions at the request of Karasiuk who sent an e-mail to my inbox that read: