Several teenage cadets were hospitalized with heat-related illnesses in New York State’s Hudson Valley on Wednesday after the air conditioning on the bus they were traveling in failed, the authorities said, as the region broiled in a heat wave.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the teenagers were cadets in the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, a national program for high school students that is sponsored by the U.S. military. They were part of a group of cadets traveling in two coach buses.
When the air conditioning on one bus failed, some of the cadets on board suffered heat-related illnesses and were later hospitalized, the sheriff’s office said. All passengers of both buses were removed in the town of Hamptonburgh, N.Y., about 70 miles north of New York City.
The sheriff’s office did not say how many cadets had been hospitalized or where the buses had been traveling to or from.
The Orange County Department of Emergency Services said in a statement that some cadets had been hospitalized as a precaution and others were being evaluated.
The U.S. Army Cadet Command did not immediately respond to a request for comment early Thursday.
An extreme heat warning was in effect across the Northeast and Midwest early Thursday, meaning that the combination of heat and humidity made the temperature feel like 105 degrees Fahrenheit or more, the National Weather Service said. Daily high temperatures in Hamptonburgh and the surrounding areas have been in the upper 90s this week.
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