By Mariel S. Clark
DNAinfo News Editor
MANHATTAN — July's record-breaking heat wave is still claiming victims as the extreme heat was blamed for a fifth death in the city, the medical examiner's office said Wednesday, according to the New York Times.
The medical examiner's office said the 51-year-old Manhattan man died on July 8, just one day after temperatures climbed to 100 degrees, due to heat and "natural disease," the Times reported.
July's heat wave brought triple-digit temperatures to the city on more than one occasion and claimed four other lives.
The heat combined with "environmental exposure and cocaine and alcohol intoxication" killed a 57-year-old man in Queens on July 5, the medical examiner's office said, according to NBC New York.
A 46-year-old Queens woman and 71-year-old Queens man died on July 6, when temperatures hit 103 degrees.
And on July 25, a 22-year-old Brooklyn man died of the heat.
July broke records to become one of the hottest months ever in the city since the National Weather Service began keeping records in 1870.
