Gardiner Area High School football players take a break from practice Monday.

Maria Lawson slides to the end of the Fire ‘n Ice slide to cool off at Roy’s Inflatable Water Park in Madison on a hot and humid Monday.

Safelite AutoGlass technician Jason Willett stands next to a fan mounted inside his van while working beneath an awning mounted on the exterior in Augusta Monday. Willett said he also uses a necklace with cool water and a bandana the company furnishes when temperatures get hot.

Brody Jabar and triblet siblings Lauren, Jackson and Giselle, of Belgrade, have some fun and stay cool at Roy’s Inflatable Water Park in Madison Monday.

Skowhegan Area High School football player Cub Smith drinks water to rehydrate during practice Monday.

Kaylee Heath serves a pizza she baked at several hundred degrees in the brick oven at Kennebec Pizza in Hallowell Monday. “It’s nice,” Heath said of cooking in the recently renovated building. “The air condition is cranking today.”

A trainer cools a grateful and cooperative Bengal with a water hose during a show on a hot Sunday at the Skowhegan fair.

A woman uses an umbrella to keep the sun off as she tries to beat the heat on Commercial Street in Portland on Monday.