Record-Breaking Heat Bakes Maryland

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By%20Robert%20Groth%3Cbr%20%2F%3EConowingo

Workers%20stay%20cool%20any%20way%20they%20can.

Authorities%20hand%20out%20supplies%20to%20help%20residents%20cope%20with%20the%20heat.

By%20Josh%20Mah%3Cbr%20%2F%3EA%20dust%20devil%20near%20Patterson%20Park%20in%20Baltimore.

People%20try%20to%20keep%20cool%20in%20Maryland

Baltimore%20residents%20fan%20themselves%20off%20as%20they%20face%20the%20heat.

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Gene%20Holmes%20splashes%20into%20a%20quarry%20lake%20after%20jumping%20from%20a%20rope%20swing%20at%20the%20Beaver%20Dam%20Swimming%20Club%20July%202%2C%202012%20in%20Cockeysville%2C%20Maryland.%20%28Photo%20by%20Win%20McNamee%2FGetty%20Images%29%20

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Chantel%20Streeter%20and%20her%20son%2C%20Omar%2C%20try%20to%20keep%20cool%20while%20waiting%20for%20a%20bus%20in%20west%20Baltimore.%20%28Barbara%20Haddock%20Taylor%2FBaltimore%20Sun%2FMCT%20via%20Getty%20Images%29

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William%20Bratcher%20tries%20to%20cool%20off%20while%20working%20on%20Falls%20Road.%20%28Lloyd%20Fox%2FBaltimore%20Sun%2FMCT%20via%20Getty%20Images%29

The%20sun%20beats%20down%20on%20Baltimore.

Kids%20splash%20around%20in%20pools%20to%20keep%20cool%20during%20the%20heat%20wave.

Baltimore%20tries%20to%20beat%20the%20heat.

Marylanders%20soak%20up%20the%20hot%20sun%20as%20they%20work%20on%20their%20tans.

Workers%20work%20through%20the%20heat%20in%20Baltimore.

The%20heat%20makes%20working%20outside%20unbearable.

Doctors%20warn%20about%20the%20dangers%20of%20the%20heat.

The%20heat%20wave%20continues%20in%20Maryland.

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This%20is%20heat-related%20concrete%20damage%20along%20US%2050%20near%20Maryland%20197.

That%20looks%20ominous.

These%20are%20mammatus%20clouds.

Mammatus%20clouds%20are%20photographed%20in%20Charles%20Village.