Like most high desert towns, Madras, Oregon, is no stranger to extreme temperatures. Located about 2,250 feet above sea level in a dry valley surrounded by central Oregon’s Cascade Range, summers in ...

The mobile home where Shirley Kouplen lived shown Thursday, May 23, 2024, in Phoenix. Her mobile home cooling system stopped working during the sweltering heatwave of 2023, and by the time emergency ...