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Hot Weather Photos: Release The Fire Hydrants!
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Ben Yakas
Published Jul 24, 2011
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Another day, another record-breaking temperature: after it hit 104 on Friday, there was yet another record-high temperature on Saturday when it hit 100 in Central Park around 2 p.m., breaking the old record of 99 set in 1991 (Newark also set a record high of 102 yesterday), and today there's another heat advisory. Which means there's only one way to truly celebrate this sustained feeling of being enveloped inside a thick fuzzy blanket: fire hydrants (and water fountains)! There is literally a rainbow shooting out of one! So click through the pictures above, and take-in the sights of people enjoying a good old fashioned baptism-by-hydrant.
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