Okay, so it's hot. Really hot. Don't-screw-around-with-the-heat-or-you-could-have-a-big-problem hot. So hot that cities that care about their community's well-being are doing something about it.
You've no doubt noticed that it's hot and getting hotter in and around the Rockford area, but how hot do we need to get to tie or break the record that was set in Rockford in 1936?
There's no getting around it, or mincing words about it, either. It's hot, and it's gonna get a lot hotter before this heatwave breaks. Try some of these techniques to keep cool.
It was scorching hot all over the Midwest this weekend. It's not often, as you'll see in this video, that firefighters have to deal with the heat in quite this fashion.