Picture this: June's top 40 photos show the first waves of scorching summer heat
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Doug Wright speaks on the air at KSL Newsradio at the Triad Center in Salt Lake City on Friday, June 1, 2018. Laura Seitz, Deseret News
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Karina Gossard, right, and Orien Gossard examine the inside of a plane hanging at the Leonardo Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, June 1, 2018. As they went through the museum, Orien told Karina about his time serving for the Marine Corps in signals intelligence. James Wooldridge, Deseret News
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Performers dance during “Be One” in Salt Lake City on Friday, June 1, 2018. The event celebrates the 40th anniversary of the 1978 revelation on the priesthood.
Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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A flag is carried by U.S. Bank participants during the Utah Pride parade in Salt Lake City on Sunday, June 3, 2018. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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Spencer Black spreads insecticide las he and coworker Ian Vanwagoner from Abatement District, Davis work in North Salt Lake on Monday, June 4, 2018. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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1st Lt. Colter Bowman, right, kisses 2nd Lt. Corinne Galland before about 100 Utah National Guard soldiers deployed to the Middle East from the Roland R. Wright Air National Guard Base in Salt Lake City on Monday, June 4, 2018. James Wooldridge, Deseret News
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Undergraduate researcher Bailey McFarland uses an electrospinner to create yarn made of spider silk nanofibers at Utah State University's Synthetic Spider Silk Lab in Logan on Tuesday, June 5, 2018. James Wooldridge, Deseret News
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Staff Sgt. Carlos Kubishchta works with his Belgian Malinois dog Cvoky during K-9 training at Hill Air Force Base in Clearfield on Tuesday, June 5, 2018. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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Swim instructor Amy Cox helps to teach Quinn Hoagland learn to swim as instructors work with young kids at Swim Kids in Holladay on Tuesday, June 5, 2018. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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Trevor Gruwell, water quality technician with the Utah Department of Environmental QualityÕs (DEQ) Division of Water Quality (DWQ), collects water samples from Utah Lake in Spanish Fork on Wednesday, June 6, 2018. The DEQ has been coordinating with multiple agencies and groups to protect the public from the potential dangers of harmful algal blooms found this time of year.
Laura Seitz, Deseret News
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Desiree, a sand cat, carries one of her 1-month-old kittens at Utah's Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City on Thursday, June 7, 2018. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
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U.S. Women's National Team's Julie Ertz and China's Zhang Rui head the ball in Sandy on Thursday, June 7, 2018. USA won 1-0. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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Zach Jensen, co-owner of his family farm of 3,800 acres at M & K Farms, watches watering in Centerfield on Friday, June 8, 2018. Sanpete County farmers have never seen a water supply year this dire and at half rations and will be down to 20 percent at end of the month. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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Lineman compete in the Lineman's Rodeo in West Valley City on Saturday, June 9, 2018. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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A heavy tanker drops retardant as air attack crews work the Trail Mountain fire in Emery County on Monday, June 11, 2018. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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Trees burn at the Trail Mountain fire in Emery County on Monday, June 11, 2018. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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The Kevlar tether is released from a BolaWrap Non-Lethal Tool during a demonstration at the Park City Police Department on Wednesday, June 13, 2018. The new tool can be used to assist law enforcement in their dealings with people in crisis.
Laura Seitz, Deseret News
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North Logan firefighters mop up after a fire destroyed eight homes, two garages and a shop near Pack Creek in Moab on Wednesday, June 13, 2018. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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Resident Rick Carrigan looks over damage to his home on Thursday, June 14, 2018 after a fire destroyed several homes in Moab. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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Richard Smith speaks with Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown during a cleanup of the homeless camps located east of Victory Road in the foothills north of Salt Lake City on Thursday, June 14, 2018. Smith has been living in the Victory Road homeless camps for nine years.
Laura Seitz, Deseret News
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Julio Cesar Laguna Salgado places a cross on Friday, June 15, 2018 with family members at the place where Elizabeth Elena Laguna Salgado was found in Hobble Creek Canyon. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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Libertad Edith Salgado Figueroa, mother of Elizabeth Elena Laguna Salgado, cry with her sisters Ruth Yolanda Laguna Salgado and Mayra Ivette Salgado as family members gather in Hobble Creek Canyon on Friday, June 15, 2018 where her body was found and leave a memorial. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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Rick Walker of Star Valley, Wyoming, photographs the formation of Black Hawk helicopters as soldiers from one of the Utah National Guard's aviation units deploy to the Middle East in support of Operation Spartan Shield from the Army Aviation Support Facility in West Jordan on Friday, June 15, 2018. Walker's son, Lt. Zackary Walker, was a pilot flying on of the helicopters.
Laura Seitz, Deseret News
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Robert Patey hugs his wife Michelle Patey, after she was recognized with the Lifesaving Award for saving his life by perfoming CPR on him for over seven minutes until EMS arrived, at Unified Fire Authority station 17 in Taylorsville on Monday, June 18, 2018. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
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Cassie Smith, marketing coordinator for the Davis Education Foundation, reacts as she drives 107.36 miles per hour during Race for Schools, presented by the Davis Education Foundation and Hughes General Contractors, which raises money for the Davis Education Foundation Cash for Classrooms and Innovative Grants programs at Rocky Mountain Raceway in West Valley City on Thursday, June 21, 2018. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
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Thousands of four to five inch long splake spill into the Jordanelle Reservoir near Heber on Monday, May 21, 2018 as a DWR hatchery crew stocks the sterile fish, which is a cross between lake trout and brook trout, into the reservoir for the first time. More than 60,000 splice will be introduced to this popular Wasatch Front fishery. The fish grow quickly and could reach adult lengths of more than two feet long. Steve Griffin, Deseret News
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Alternative View Project Coordinator Jesse Wood stands on a revegetated hillside at the Rio Tinto Kennecott copper mine on Friday, June 22, 2018. The Alternative View reclamation project has replanted 400 acres of land so far. James Wooldridge, Deseret News
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People admire the hummingbirds made by Shao Lin Xia at the Utah Arts Festival in Salt Lake City on Friday, June 22, 2018.
Laura Seitz, Deseret News
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Gavry Strelka, 9, watches the 388th Fighter Wing Attack Demo streak by in F-35As during the Warriors Over the Wasatch Air and Space Show at Hill Air Force Base on Saturday, June 23, 2018. Watching behind him are Mark and Carrie Strelka. James Wooldridge, Deseret News
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Immigrant Heritage Month is being celebrated in Salt Lake City in part with this interactive public art installation at the Eccles Theater in downtown SLC. The public art demonstration includes giant metal letters that spell out "I love SLC" and will encourage participants to share their immigrant identity on the art itself by placing a flag of their identified heritage on the heart, during the day-long event in Salt Lake City on Tuesday June, May 26, 2018. Steve Griffin, Deseret News
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Mitt Romney, Republican primary candidate in Utah's senate race, addresses supporters after being declared the winner at an event in Orem on primary election night, Tuesday, June 26, 2018. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
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Darlene Lefevre and her daughter, Sophia, 10, watch as the cover is pulled off a 2015 Chrysler 200 being donated to them at Higgins Body and Paint in West Valley City on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. Geico and Higgins Body and Paint, along with other organizations, teamed up to donate a refurbished car to Lefevre and her daughter, who just moved out of a shelter and into an apartment a week ago. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
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Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Jalaine Hawkes watches drivers from a van during an operation designed to ticket distracted drivers with a specific concern towards cellphone use at the Utah Highway Patrol offices in Murray on June 27, 2018. The operation included 6 Troopers, 3 spotters, and 1 driver that were focused on distracted drivers in Salt Lake County on I-15, I-215, and I-80. The spotters rode in a black sixteen passenger van as they looked for distracted drivers who were using cell phones while driving. The spotters then radioed Troopers, who were in cars and motorcycles, to conduct a traffic stop on the motorist. Traffic citations and warnings were given with the hopes that the motoring public will put down their cell phones and focus on driving.
on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. Steve Griffin, Deseret News
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Water droplets stick to Makayla Blanc's freckles as she plays in the water fountains at Salt Lake City's Liberty Park during what is so far the hottest day of summer on Wednesday, June 27, 2018.
Laura Seitz, Deseret News
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Utah Royals FC midfielder Gunnhildur Jónsdóttir (23) crashes into the back of Seattle Reign FC midfielder Allie Long (6) as the Utah Royals and the Seattle Reign play at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. Game ended in a 0-0 draw. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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Ryan Wilson rides a Bird electric scooter in Salt Lake City on Thursday, June 28, 2018. The electric scooters just made their first appearance with 100 of them distributed in downtown. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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Justin Hurtt and Meghan Stan, trail crew members with the U.S. Forest Service's Salt Lake Ranger District, pick up garbage from an abandoned camp site in Big Cottonwood Canyon on Friday, June 29, 2018.
Laura Seitz, Deseret News
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A helicopter drops water on the West Valley fire in the Pine Valley area in Southern Utah. Stuart Johnson, Deseret News
Picture this: Great Salt Lake beachgoers stand at the lake's salty shore, rising heat blurring their figures. At a tepid pool in Holladay, young children bob, float and flutter kick with the cheerful coaching of swim instructors.
Swim instructor Amy Cox teaches Quinn Hoagland how to swim at SwimKids in Holladay on Tuesday, June 5, 2018. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
About a hundred miles south, a Sanpete County farmer surveys his parched land, contemplating the dire state of his water supply.
Zack Jensen, co-owner of the 3,800-acre M&K Farms in Centerfield, watches as a field is watered on Friday, June 8, 2018. Sanpete County farmers say they have never seen the water supply as dire as this year. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
Throughout the state, firefighters battle wildfire flames and hose hot spots.
An air tanker drops retardant on the Trail Mountain Fire in Emery County on Monday, June 11, 2018. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
North Logan firefighters mop up after a fire in Moab on Wednesday, June 13, 2018. The fire, which started Tuesday evening, destroyed 10 homes, two garages and a variety of outbuildings, Moab Police Chief Jim Winder said. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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June brought celebration, reflection and the first waves of scorching summer heat. Here's a look back at our favorite photo highlights.
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