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Images from Fort Worth's 1980 Heat Wave

www.aol.com We dug up photos of Fort Worth’s notorious 1980 heat wave in Star-Telegram vault

Who remembers 1980’s heat wave? It was so hot in North Texas, they made “I survived” shirts. These newly digitized Star-Telegram photos are seen for first time since that steamy summer.

From June to August, the heat wave claimed 1,700 lives and cost $71 million dollars (adjusted for 2022) in agricultural damage.

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