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Advocates delivered a petition to Gov. Katie Hobbs for enforceable heat safety standards.

Arizona currently lacks statewide laws mandating heat-related protections for outdoor workers.

Other states with heat protection laws, like California, have seen a decrease in related worker deaths.

Trina David works at the Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix where she spends hours in the blazing heat.

On summer days, the Tarmac feels much hotter than the surrounding city. Like an even more concentrated heat island effect, temperatures on the pavement can sky rocket . In June, on a 112 degree day, David pointed her heat gun at the ground. It read 155 degrees.

She is one of hundreds of thousands of employees working in a heat-vulnerable job, a sector that makes up 15

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