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It’s really hot outside. How hot is it? It’s so hot this DCist reporter is too exhausted from the two minutes she spent outside to write a lede that doesn’t contain a Match Game reference. Inanimate objects in D.C. and the metro area aren’t handling the heat so well, either.

As WTOP reported, air conditioning systems in eight D.C. ambulances failed today before 2 p.m.:

D.C. Fire and Emergency Services Department deputy chief in charge of fleet management says that air conditioning systems in many of the District’s ambulances have had some “pretty significant failures” after being stressed by the heat this week.

John Donnelly says many of the repair jobs have required six to eight hours of repair work to tear the system apart and replace high pressure lines, air compressors or condensers.

“We’re having pretty significant failures in our air conditioning systems,” Donnelly says.

Reserve ambulances are called in when regular ones break.

Then there’s a smaller, but still important object that’s broken in Arlington: The electronic bus arrival screen at the Super Stop on Columbia Pike, which cost a cool $1 million to build. As ARLNow reported, the heat broke the sign’s cooling fan. It should be fixed within two weeks, then promptly broken again by the heat.

Also broken? Today’s record for minimum low temperature at Reagan National Airport.