In Louisiana, heat-related deaths have soared. The quiet disaster is ‘going to get worse.’

The heat set in before sunrise in Algiers.

Outside his yellow brick home, Dornell Anderson ventured into the stagnant August air, trying to finish yard work before the temperature became unbearable.

He mowed his lawn, facing the neighborhood where he had spent his whole life, from playing football in the street to building a family with his wife.

Then a neighbor saw him collapse.

His wife, Sheila Borskey, felt her stomach drop when she got the phone call from the West Bank hospital where her husband had gone from working as a cook to being treated as a patient. She rushed to see him. Anderson, just 60 years old, had died of a heart attack.

The Orleans Parish coroner said his death was the result of heart complications exacerbated by the extreme heat. It was the 25th death in New Orle