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• Aug. 2: Bob Burk sits in the garage of the flag store he works at while he reads the newspaper in Hanover, Mass.
• Aug. 2: Carlos Rivera, 16, jumps into a swimming pool in Holyoke, Mass.
• Aug. 2: Youngsters cool off in the spray from a fire hydrant in New Bedford, Mass.
• Aug. 2: Jose Pagan, 66, yells as he sticks his head in the spray from a garden hose in front of his Newark, N.J., home.
• Aug. 1: Julio Ferreira, right, jumps into the Hudson River as friends cool off in Hoboken, N.J., across from New York City.
• Aug. 2: A dog walker is led by his panting charges on New York's Upper West Side.
• Aug. 2: Two boys face off in a water fight in New York's Riverside Park.
• Aug. 2: A child cools off in New York's Riverside Park.
• Aug. 2: Brian Suarez, 9, stays cool by staying underground on the beach at Coney Island, Brooklyn.
• Aug. 2: Beachgoers play in the water on the beach at Coney Island, Brooklyn.
• Aug. 2: Beachgoers flock to the water at Coney Island, Brooklyn.
• Aug. 2: Lifeguards sit above a sea of umbrellas on the beach at Coney Island, Brooklyn.
• Aug. 1: With a wet towel on his head, Alex Gabriel tries to cool off as he works over the grill of his gyro cart in New York.
• Aug. 1: Larry Dydzuhn creates a water slide as he plays with a friend at a playground in New York's Chelsea neighborhood.
• Aug. 2: A man wipes his brow as he rides a New York City subway train.
• Aug. 2: A woman sleeps on a bench during the morning heat in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan.
• Aug. 1: Swimmers try riding the waves at City Beach in Plattsburgh, N.Y.
• Aug. 1: Anana, 5, a polar bear at the Buffalo Zoo, shakes off water after a swim in the bear exhibit's pool in Buffalo, N.Y.
• Aug. 1: After collapsing twice from the heat, Shai Weaver, 4, is transported to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y.
• Aug. 1: Terry Groh cools off at Ontario Beach Park in Charlotte, N.Y.
• Aug. 1: Rico Cahill and girlfriend Sherri Sauerhafer sunbathe in front of a sand sculpture of Sherri in Charlotte, N.Y.
• Aug. 2: Sunbathers crowd Old Orchard Beach, Maine.
• Aug. 2: Sunbathers crowd both sides of The Pier at Old Orchard Beach, Maine.
• Aug. 2: Children fill the public pool in Portsmouth, N.H.
• Aug. 1: Holly Powell, 12, and her brother, Andrew, 15, take turns swinging into Elkhorn Creek while escaping the heat.
• Aug. 1: Sheila, a French bulldog, cools her feet in Dublin Lake in Dublin, N.H.
• Aug. 1: Teens seeking relief from hot temperatures take turns sliding into Dublin Lake at sunset in Dublin, N.H.
• Aug. 1: Drake Ranney jumps off the high dive at Dankwardt Pool in Burlington, Iowa.
• Aug. 1: Kerry Bettit of Manatts construction company endures the heat as a crew resurfaces Lincoln Way in Ames, Iowa.
• Aug. 1: Construction worker Richard Goudy, left, refills his water bottle in Harrisburg, Pa.
• Aug. 2: Wilmington, Del., summer campers use handheld fans and a parasol to try to cool off at near Cornwall, Pa.
• Aug. 2: A Chihuahua named ‘Pooch’ gets a cooling sprinkle from a fire hydrant in north Philadelphia.
• Aug. 2: Hector Colon, right, pushes Raymond Marero into a fire hydrant's blast in north Philadelphia.
• Aug. 2: Jordan McFadden, 5, tries to catch water drops in his mouth from a watering center at near Cornwall, Pa.
• Aug. 2: Rob Coccagna, left, douses himself at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire near Cornwall, Pa.
• Aug. 2: A woman dressed as Queen Elizabeth is cooled at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire near Cornwall, Pa.
• Aug. 2: Capitol police officer Davis Stearlings stands under an umbrella as he stands guard at the U.S. Capitol.
• Aug. 2: Tom McNally of Chicago uses a water bottle to cool his son, Tommy, in Washington, D.C.
• Aug. 1: Ohio high school soccer players dunk their heads in icy water.
• Aug. 1: Vacationers crowd the wave pool at Wyandot Lake in Powell, Ohio.
• Aug.1: High school football players try to keep cool with ice-water-soaked towels during water breaks in Roanoke, Va.
• Aug. 1: Eden Fulton, 4, of Newport News, Va., runs head first into a fountain at Virginia Zoological park in Norfolk, Va.
• Aug. 2: Mike Wright delivers a fan to the home of Edith Taylor, seated, in Richmond, Va.
• Aug. 1: Cameron Smith, 5, jumps through a sprinkler while playing in Salisbury, Md.
• Aug. 1: Cameron Smith, 5, left, Brian Smith, 9, center, and Briana Smith, 5, cool off in Salisbury, Md.
• Aug. 1: Chicago firefighters stack water bottles for residents displaced by a power outage and seeking heat relief.
• July 31: Macylee Sparks, 2, left, waters down her mother, Kendall Erickson, at the Christian Park spray pool in Indianapolis.
• Aug. 1: Brian Hall, 11, finds refuge under a fountain from another day of mid-90s in Gary, Ind.
• Aug. 1: Lachay Roseborough, 14, left, and Ricky Boyd, 13, run through the fountain at St Anne's Park in Columbia, S.C.
• Aug. 1: A sign in front of Dortches Baptist Church comments on the recent high temperatures in Dortches, N.C.