‘As soon as I see the sun, I’m frightened’: The parents paying the heart-breaking price of soaring temperatures | CNN

When the sun started to beat down in Chorley, in the north of England, 13-year old Dylan Ramsay did what many children do when the summer heat arrives: Jump into water. On the warm July day, Dylan and his friends left the local playground and headed for a nearby quarry. He was looking for a bit of fun and a way to cool down, but Dylan never came home. He was in the water only a short while before he got into difficulty. Another swimmer pulled him out, but it was too late. On Thursday, as the UK endured its hottest June temperature on record, CNN visited the quarry where Dylan drowned, with his mom, Beckie Ramsay. “As soon as I see the sun, I’m frightened,” she said. “I wake up in the morning and I’m waiting to be tagged in posts — kids drowning, someone gone missing, not been seen for hours,” Ramsay said. As she stood near the gates with two small signs that read “Danger deep water” and “Stay away,” she kept checking her phone. Ramsay, a mother of four, including Dylan, has become someone grieving families often call when their child dies in the water. This year has already been particularly hard. Since Dylan’s death in 2011, hundreds more children in the UK