Hypothermia is an abnormally low body temperature often caused by over-exposure to cold temperatures, such as a person immersed in a cold body of water (40 degrees and lower) for a period of 30 minutes. If not treated quickly, victims of ...

"By November 2005 it was like we were sitting in a big box of match heads, that’s how dry it was in Oklahoma," Incident Commander Mark Goeller recalls. "We also had unusually high temperatures and strong winds, up to 40 miles ...