(1 Jul 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome – 1 July 2025
1. Pharmacy sign reading 38 degrees C (100.4 F) with St. Peter’s dome in the background
2. Various of tourists wearing hats on the way to St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican
3. Volunteers unloading water packs from a van
4. Volunteers bringing water packs
5. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Gualtiero Filippi, Italian Civil Protection: "The Civil Protection of Rome at this time is acting against the heat wave as it is stipulated in the Civil Protection plan. We distribute water and assistance to the people.”
6. Filippi giving directions to volunteers
7. Women showing air-conditioned area in tent
8. Air conditioners in the tent
9. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Martina Fistetto, Red Cross of Rome:
“We are from the Red Cross of Rome. We currently have five mobile stations at strategic points in the city, such as here in Piazza Pia, at the Imperial Forum and at the Colosseum. We offer water, cooling stations and shaded areas. In this room behind me we offer basic health care.”
10. Volunteers unloading water packs from a van to take to tents
11. Inside of the tent
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12. Wide of Pantheon with tourists walking past with hats and umbrellas to protect them from heat
13. People gathered around fountain in front of Pantheon
14. Woman with parasol sticking her hand into fountain
15. Woman filling water bottle
16. Woman using fountain water to cover her face with water
17. Hands in fountain
18. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Paolo Scarabaggio, 20:
“This is one of the solutions getting arms wet with the water from the fountain and then taking little streets that are in the shade and staying out of the sun.”
19. Two men taking water from the fountain and putting it on the backs of their necks
20. People filling up water bottles at a fountain
21. Wide of woman filling water bottle at fountain
22. Close of a water bottle filling at the fountain
23. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Julie Riolacci, 18, tourist from France: “Sunglasses, a bit of sunscreen, a cap, and that’s it, oh yes, and always have water in your bag.”
24. Close of bottle of water as it is filled at fountain.
25. People filling water bottles
26.Women drinking lemony looking drinks
27. Gelateria- Ice Cream shop
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Niels Stuck, 29, tourist from Germany:
“You see it right here, it is ice cream. We get gelato every day and those things that you see in the outdoor restaurants where it pushes a little bit of air with water, so it is like an invention we don’t have in Germany, for example.”
29. Various of water fans outside a restaurant
30. People around entrance to ice cream shop
31. SOUNDBITE (English) Lance Gentry, 57. tourist from Texas:
“I am from Texas, so I am kinda used to the hot because it gets about the same temperatures but I expected it to be somewhere in the 80s, not in the almost 100 degrees. So, I did not, being from the USA, from Texas, I am kinda used to the heat but I don’t remember, I did not believe it would be this hot. It is extremely hot this year.”
32. Close of gelato
33. Close of woman eating gelato
24. Gelateria Ice Cream Shop and Pantheon in the background
STORYLINE:
People in Rome were struggling, Tuesday, to cope with the heat as temperatures rose above 40 degrees Celsius or 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
Tourists dunked their hands, arms and faces into Rome’s ubiquitous fountains and snacked on gelato as they tried to keep cool.
Italy’s Health Ministry put out red alert heat warnings for 17 cities across Italy including Rome, Florence, Turin, and Milan.
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