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"That’s all from 10 minutes on the ground, unconscious," Tim Young said, showing the burn scars on his left shoulder and left calf.

MESA, Ariz. — It started out as a typical commute - typical for Timothy Young.

"I was switching to the light rail," Young said. "I got an addiction to Pokémon, I was playing Pokémon downtown Mesa. I was waiting at the light rail station, next thing I know I was being woken up by EMTs."

He said he passed out in the heat on July 27 on the light rail pavement near Mesa Dr. and Main St. in downtown Mesa.

He remembered it being 119 degrees that day.

"That’s all from 10 minutes on the ground, unconscious," he said, showing the burn scars on his left shoulder and left calf.

Those ten minutes led to a lifelong change.

"It looked like a carved-out pumpkin," he said, shuddering at his initial injuries.

He was rushed to the hospital – first for dehydration. Then doctors saw the severity of his burns.

"The first day it looked like a sunburn, the next day it looked like a piece of burnt marshmallow," he explained.

He said hospital staff shared that this happens more often than people think during the summer. He learned that many people burned on pavement or other hot surfaces avoid seeking medical attention and risk infections because the burns don't set in right away.

Maricopa County tracks heat deaths and heat injuries and this July had the biggest spike in heat hospitalizations.

Young spent two months at the hospital and after a series of surgeries, including skin grafts, finally got to go home and back to work.

"I feel bad for my coworkers," Young said "I sit there struggling wondering how I’m going to keep up with what I used to do."

He still has healing to do - including a lot of skin stretching, rehabilitation and possibly another surgery.

He's put together at GoFundMe page to help with expenses while he's in recovery.

"You still hold on to that hope that everything will be okay and it will work itself out," he said.

His two biggest takeaways from this scary experience: drink water and electrolytes; and make sure you put booties on your pets paws to protect them from the pavement.

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A Mesa man suffered severe burns from hot pavement after passing out in July and now has a warning for those in the heat.

MESA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - People in Arizona are still dealing with triple-digit temperatures and record-breaking heat well into October. However, one man in Mesa says he’s still recovering after falling on the ground and suffering third-degree burns in July.

Timothy Young says that being from California, he always heard the warnings about how hot Arizona could get. “It was hot every single day,” he said. “I was standing on the light rail station playing Pokémon, just waiting, and the next thing I knew, EMTS were waking me up.”

He says he was trying to get home from work that day, usually about a 20-minute commute. “I work in a warehouse. So it has brutal temperatures in the warehouse, and just being outside, having to ride the bus. The commute with the light rail, bus, just trying to get home. It’s hot out there,” Young said.

He was just a few miles from home near Mesa Drive and Main Street in downtown Mesa. “One minute, I’m fine. Another minute, it’s a few stars, and then you’re scarred for life,” he said.

Young ended up at the burn center inside Valleywise Hospital, receiving surgeries and skin grafts for severe burns from the pavement. That same month, doctors there said every single one of the 45 beds in the burn center were full, sharing that one-third of those patients had fallen on the ground and burned themselves. “I’m used to go, go, go. To have to sit in the hospital bed for two months, that was intense,” Young said.

Nearly 10 minutes passed out on the hot pavement, and his life is now completely different. “Recovery is still on its way. My wounds still aren’t fully healed. It’s hard. Everything hurts, trying to grab something off the bridge with this arm is impossible,” he said.

Young still takes the light rail and bus daily but says he has gotten much better at staying hydrated by drinking water and electrolytes. He says doctors told him the pavement could have been up to 160 degrees that day, and he hopes his story serves as a reminder to stay hydrated and put booties on pets to protect them.

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Connect Homes, an industry-leading prefab housing provider, announced it will be opening a new factory in Mesa, Arizona in the first quarter of 2024. The factory will be the second facility in Connect Homes’ portfolio and expand the company’s footprint into the Mountain West to better serve and provide the region with modern, precisely engineered modular housing solutions.

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The company designs, manufactures, delivers, and installs beautiful single-family homes and other housing solutions across the U.S. Its patented steel-frame modular system makes it possible to build architect-designed homes, semi-custom homes, multi-unit communities, and shelters, faster and more affordably than traditional construction.

“With increasing demand for the Connect Homes suite of housing innovations, we have reached our capacity limit in our current San Bernardino factory and now is the time to grow our manufacturing base with a second state-of-the-art factory in Mesa that gives us the space to build and supply the next generation of housing,” said Deborah Casper, CEO of the homebuilder. “Our new factory will play an integral role in providing elegant, affordable homes to prospective homeowners and shelter for individuals experiencing homelessness across the Mountain West and we are grateful to the City of Mesa for welcoming Connect Homes to the region. We are committed to being a part of the solution to the acute housing shortage in California, Arizona, and across the country.”

The Arizona factory will be capable of manufacturing up to 5,000 square feet of housing per week. Additionally, the facility will be approximately three times larger than Connect Homes’ San Bernardino factory and will create more than 90 jobs for the local Mesa economy. At this size,tThe company will be able to simultaneously run multiple industry-leading assembly lines to meet the growing demand for the company’s innovative homebuilding projects.

“We’re pleased to welcome housing innovator Connect Homes to Mesa,” said Mayor John Giles. “Cities and towns throughout the United States are working to address the need for a range of housing options, which is a high priority in Mesa. It’s great to see Connect Homes bringing more high-quality, affordable housing options to our market.”

“As the Greater Phoenix housing market continues to evolve, we need innovative companies like Connect Homes to lead with unique ideas and quality manufacturing,” said Greater Phoenix Economic Council President and CEO Chris Camacho. “Their presence in Mesa will provide more options to residents looking for affordable, eco-friendly opportunities.”

The company launched in 2012 and delivered its first single family home in 2013. Since then, the company has delivered 122 homes, equaling over 800 modules, and built 37 ADU’s in California. Unique among homebuilders, Connect is a vertically integrated prefab company that designs, manufactures, transports, and installs modern, green single-family homes.

Connect Homes’ ability to oversee all aspects of the manufacturing and home delivery process enabled it to quickly design, build, and deploy non-congregate homeless housing solutions across California as part of Project Homekey, a statewide effort to sustain and rapidly expand housing for persons experiencing homelessness. As part of Project Homekey, Connect is partnering with cities to deploy modular homes in Mountain View, Long Beach and Victorville, California.

“Demand for attractive, affordable homes has never been higher,” said Gordon Stott, co- founder and chief architect at Connect Homes. “We are excited to begin producing and delivering quality, robust homes and continue transforming the way homes are built. The Mesa factory will be key in fulfilling our promise.”

The company was represented by Senior Vice President James Cohn and Vice President Stirling Pascal with Stream Realty Partners.

The homebuilder is actively recruiting for new positions at the AZ Factory, for more information please visit, http://connect-homes.com/Careers.

MESA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — Google is launching its first physical presence in the Valley by building a $600 million data center in Mesa.

On Wednesday, the tech giant announced that it’ll bring technical infrastructure to help support the company’s efforts in artificial intelligence and cloud business computing. Google adds that the new data center will help power things like Google Search, Gmail, Maps, Google Cloud, and other products and services. Executives from Google were joined by Gov. Katie Hobbs, Rep. Greg Stanton, and Mesa Mayor John Giles.

“Google’s investment in Arizona will be critical for the Mesa community and our state’s economy,” Governor Katie Hobbs said. “Arizona continues to attract global technology leaders due to our skilled workforce, dynamic economy, and focus on innovation. We are proud to welcome Google to Arizona and look forward to the many opportunities this partnership will bring.”

Mesa will be the first city in Arizona to have Google Fiber

As the tech world continues to expand rapidly, Google is adding a Google Cloud region to Phoenix to bring cloud technologies closer to local customers. Those efforts will help deliver digital services faster and more reliably to Arizonans.

“We are proud to put down roots in Arizona with both the data center in Mesa and the Phoenix cloud region,” said Joe Kava, VP of Data Centers at Google. “Not only do data centers help keep digital services up and running for people and businesses, they are economic anchors in the communities where we operate. We are appreciative of the continued partnership with the local leadership across the state.”

Google says that last year, $11.4 billion in economic activity was generated for tens of thousands of Arizona businesses.

What about water use?

The new data center will reportedly use state-of-the-art technology to limit water usage, according to Google’s press release. “This strategy prioritizes minimizing net climate impact and using natural resources responsibly, both today and in the future,” the statement says. “In line with this approach, the Mesa data center will make use of air-cooled technology.” Google also references in commitment to reducing its energy use, adding that since 2017, the company says it has worked to match its energy usage with an equal amount of renewable energy to offset the impact.

Sarah Porter, director of Arizona State University’s Kyl Center for Water Policy, says it won’t hurt farmers and shouldn’t impact the city’s water supply.

“Beyond its operations, Google is committed to improving local watershed health where its office campuses and data centers are located and replenish 120% of the water it consumes, on average,” company officials wrote in the news release. The company recently gave $150,000 to the Salt River Project to help watershed restoration efforts and assist with wildfire risk reduction.

Details on when the data site will be operational haven’t been released. For more information on Google in Arizona, click/tap here.

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Following a series of thunderstorms that ripped through portions of the Valley on Tuesday night, chances of a reprise were possible through the afternoon for Greater Phoenix.

According to the National Weather Service, storms had "erupted" in the early hours of Wednesday morning for much of the foothills and higher terrain sections of the Valley, spawning the potential for strong, gusty winds, heavy downpours, frequent lightning and small hail.

These storms have since continued on their path eastward, causing a slew of flash flood warnings and advisories for swaths of Maricopa County.

"It looks like the predominant amount of activity today with shower and thunderstorm activity is going to stay primarily east of Phoenix," Phoenix branch meteorologist Alex Young told The Arizona Republic.

Young added that if storms were to hit the metro area, they'd likely do so toward the middle to late afternoon hours.

Per the forecast, temperatures were slated to be as high as 101 degrees in Phoenix on Wednesday; however, depending on cloud coverage, the Valley could remain below 100 degrees.

"We've got a lot of work to do if we even get to 100 today," Young said.

Looking toward the weekend, conditions will once again start to dry out, decreasing the concerns for convection and warming back up to the mid-100s.

Tuesday storms bring hail, high winds

Tuesday night's storms crushed sections of the Valley, bringing heavy rain, hail and high winds that caused the temporary closure of a school and sent planes at Falcon Field Airport in Mesa airborne.

"Last night we had quite a bit of activity," Young said. "We saw reports of 70-80 mph wind gusts with that at this point. There were some hail reports as well, looks like up to 1.75 inches in the Chandler area."

In regard to rain, according to the Maricopa County Flood Control District, amounts varied all over the metro area and Maricopa County. While a number of areas reported totals below half an inch, those in north Phoenix, east Mesa and Apache Junction took most of the pounding, some areas boasting upward of 2.5 inches

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The winds caused structural damage to Zaharis Elementary in Mesa, forcing Mesa Public Schools administration to close the campus until the roof is repaired.

The school district told The Republic that students were scheduled to return to school on Tuesday, Sept. 19, but that could change as staff continued to assess the situation.

Teachers were in contact with their students for at-home learning activities, the district said, and added that families in need of assistance would have to fill out a form emailed to them.

Winds were also felt at Falcon Field Airport, as the reliever to Sky Harbor International and Phoenix-Mesa Gateway got hit hard by the disastrous cell at around 8:30 p.m.

The Maricopa County Flood Control District reported that Falcon Field received nearly 1.5 inches of rain during the downpour.

"They had about 20 planes outside that were damaged, including some that were overturned from the storm," Mesa senior public information specialist Kevin Christopher told The Arizona Republic. "We've got numerous hangars with some damage, both hangars owned by the airport and privately owned."

Two vintage World War II hangars were also among those battered and beaten, one sustaining some roof and door damage, while the other had its roof blown off.

Christopher added that no one was injured and that the airport remains open and never closed during the onslaught's peak.