Charles Hood: Thomas Homan and Dozen People

charles hood: One later died at a hospital, according to Metro News. San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said Saturday that the trailer didn't have a working air conditioning system and the victims were very hot to the touch. Authorities said they found more than three dozen people, including nine who were dead, in the truck's trailer after an employee at the San Antonio Walmart where it was parked overnight called the police. Thomas Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told The Associated Press that based on initial interviews with survivors, there may have been more than 100 people in the truck at one point, including some who were picked up by other vehicles or who fled. function set Cookie related path / ; Related Immigrants wept, pleaded for water and pounded on the truck This and other tragic instances of human smuggling, including a 2003 case in Victoria, Texas, in which 19 immigrants died, highlight the dangers that extreme heat poses to would-be TRAILERWith a high of 101 degrees 38 Celsius in San Antonio on Saturday, the temperature inside a parked car would have reached 120 degrees 49 Celsius in 10 minutes, said Jan Null, a meteorology professor at San Jose State University who tracks U.S. child deaths in vehicles on his website www. Within 20 minutes, the temperature would have risen to 130 degrees 54 Celsius . The lack of windows on the trailer in San Antonio may have reduced the temperature inside by a couple degrees because of the lack of direct sunlight, but the heat and moisture from the bodies of everyone inside would have added heat and humidity. NoHeat Stroke.org. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.