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A deep arctic freeze has locked parts of the Midwest
to the Northeast in their fourth day of glacial temperatures felt as low
as -36F degrees - freezing fountains, faces, and as breathtakingly seen
in Chicago, entire buildings. In the Windy City firemen battled a
five-alarm warehouse fire in single-digit temperatures last night, with
the extreme cold hindering the process. Water froze on firefighters’
gloves almost as soon as it left their hoses, and today, the entire
façade of the building, located on the city’s South Side was coated in
sheets of ice.
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Blistering cold: A deep arctic freeze has locked parts of the Midwest to
the Northeast in below freezing temperatures as seen with this frozen
fountain in New York City's Bryant Park on Wednesday
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The big freeze: Firefighters spray down hot spots on an ice covered
warehouse that caught fire Tuesday night in Chicago; temperatures across
the country plummeted last night as the mercury climbed as low as 50
degrees below freezing
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Clinging: Icicles form on a fire hose as Windy City firefighters battled
last night's blaze
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Coated: A firefighter looked at the surface of the vacant warehouse;
more than 200 men and women fought the blaze last night
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Cold snap: Trucks in Chicago are frozen in place under sheets of ice as
an Arctic blast continues to grip the U.S. Midwest and Northeast
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Tricky situation: Firefighters were attempting to tackle a blaze at this
warehouse in Chicago but their water froze as soon as it left the hoses
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Winter mess: Ice coats the shoreline along the Delaware Bay in the Reeds
Beach section of Middle Township, New Jersey; punishing winds and
sub-zero temperatures whipped across the Atlantic Seaboard
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Midwest might: On one of the coldest days of the year, ice fishermen
brave the cold on Bush Lake in Holly, Michigan
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Birds of a feather: A flock of geese huddles to stay warm on a slab of
ice enveloped by steam on the Rock River in Watertown, Wisconsin as
arctic air pushes through the Upper Midwest
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