Hot air day on tap for workers

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Heat wave slams workers nationwide

Roosevelt Price towels off before heading in to his job as a truck loader at Custom Engineering Co. (background) in Erie, Pa. Price walks about a mile to work each day.

Stephen Dimeglio, 49, a sub contractor for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, uses a cardboard shipping box as a makeshift hat to shield him from the searing sun as he worked outside a subway station in Brooklyn, N.Y. "People laugh at me, but it gives some shade, " said Dimeglio.

Firefighters cool down after responding to a residential building fire, in the Queens borough of New York.

Con Edison employee John Leach takes a break from restoring power to a building to drink some water in New York. Leach said the outage was most likely caused by the the high energy demand that accompanies the heat wave.

A construction worker wipes sweat from his face as he installs roofing tiles as part of a solar panel installation project at Park Ridge High School in Park Ridge, N.J.. Temperatures in the Northeast are reached into the 100s.

Exhausted firefighters lie on the street while fighting a major fire that engulfed a number of stores in White Plains, N.Y. The fire that started in an Indian restaurant continues to rage out of control on a day that saw the air temperature soar through the nineties.

Entertaining visitors must be hot work at the National Zoo in Washington. Tian Tian, one of the National Zoo's pandas, appears to wipe his face while eating a fruit popsicle.

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Roosevelt Price towels off before heading in to his job as a truck loader at Custom Engineering Co. (background) in Erie, Pa. Price walks about a mile to work each day.

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