WTNH News Channel 8 / News / 1999

	Being out of the heat not an option for some workers (New Haven-WTNH) _ if they could, people found a nice, cool place inside to stay. But some workers had no choice but to work outside. News Channel 8's Jocelyn Sigue reports. I tell you its so hot the soles of my feet, standing on this asphalt, are burning out here. I can't imagine what it's like to work in this heat in front of a steam press, a hot oven or walking through it for hours. We talked to folks today who do that. They were lucky they had yesterday off, but today they were back to work, and that meant sweating it out. Clem Esposito, Postal Carrier: "As you get to the end of the route the steps get taller and taller. Your legs get weary." With every step Clem Esposito knows he's closer to getting out of the oppressive heat. As a postal carrier Esposito says he's gotten used to it. Today we barely saw him break a sweat. Esposito: "The perspiration was really flowing but I think I'm all tapped out now." Not the case at Modern Apizza. After hours in front of a 600 degree oven, Gabriel Luna looks like he's melting. Gabriel Luna, Modern Apizza: "Between 120-130 degrees I would imagine. I don't know precisely, but it's hotter than it is outside." Dana Ireland, Modern Apizza: "You start to concentrate, so all you really think about is how hot you are." And hard to keep your cool. Jet Cleaners has just one fan in operation today. Antoinette Amaker, Jet Cleaners: "It's hot, because you have this press right here, blowing steam right on you, and it's like, real closed in, you know. We're really feeling it." Gaynell Hayes, Jet Cleaners: "And when you get hot you get aggravated, especially when the customers come in. And they want this this way and this this way, and you get very aggravated." Wanna talk aggravation? Mariam Eckelhoefer never though about the heat when she chose to be a cellist. Mariam Eckelhoefer, New Haven: "Awful. I mean it's black and the instrument inside is probably melting and falling apart. It's just... miserable." The key to staying cool for these workers: plenty of water, and for a couple of them, especially the mailman, walking through an occasional sprinkler. Today's News Page. WTNH Home Page. ©1999 WTNH/WTNH-DT A LIN station.

Being out of the heat not an option for some workers
(New Haven-WTNH) _ if they could, people found a nice, cool place inside to stay. But some workers had no choice but to work outside.
News Channel 8's Jocelyn Sigue reports.

I tell you its so hot the soles of my feet, standing on this asphalt, are burning out here. I can't imagine what it's like to work in this heat in front of a steam press, a hot oven or walking through it for hours. We talked to folks today who do that. They were lucky they had yesterday off, but today they were back to work, and that meant sweating it out.

Clem Esposito, Postal Carrier: "As you get to the end of the route the steps get taller and taller. Your legs get weary."

With every step Clem Esposito knows he's closer to getting out of the oppressive heat. As a postal carrier Esposito says he's gotten used to it. Today we barely saw him break a sweat.

Esposito: "The perspiration was really flowing but I think I'm all tapped out now."

Not the case at Modern Apizza. After hours in front of a 600 degree oven, Gabriel Luna looks like he's melting.

Gabriel Luna, Modern Apizza: "Between 120-130 degrees I would imagine. I don't know precisely, but it's hotter than it is outside."

Dana Ireland, Modern Apizza: "You start to concentrate, so all you really think about is how hot you are."

And hard to keep your cool. Jet Cleaners has just one fan in operation today.

Antoinette Amaker, Jet Cleaners: "It's hot, because you have this press right here, blowing steam right on you, and it's like, real closed in, you know. We're really feeling it."

Gaynell Hayes, Jet Cleaners: "And when you get hot you get aggravated, especially when the customers come in. And they want this this way and this this way, and you get very aggravated."

Wanna talk aggravation? Mariam Eckelhoefer never though about the heat when she chose to be a cellist.

Mariam Eckelhoefer, New Haven: "Awful. I mean it's black and the instrument inside is probably melting and falling apart. It's just... miserable."

The key to staying cool for these workers: plenty of water, and for a couple of them, especially the mailman, walking through an occasional sprinkler.

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