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As a heat wave engulfed parts of the United States in the summer of 2018, a photograph purportedly showing cars that had melted in Arizona due to the extreme weather started making the rounds on social media: A report from The Round, a publication based in the UK (which was experiencing its own heat wave at the time), also presented the image as if the pictured cars had melted due to extreme temperatures: The same photograph was later circulated with claims that it pictured automobiles which had melted from extreme hot weather conditions in Saudi Arabia or Kuwait: The photograph is real, but the pictured vehicles did not melt due to extremely hot weather in Arizona (or anywhere else). The damage was caused by a fire at a nearby construction site. Tuscon News Now reported that the fire broke out at a work site near the University Vista apartments at the University of Arizona on the morning of 19 June 2018. In addition to the two pictured vehicles, at least a dozen more cars were damaged by the blaze: We have not yet been able to determine who took this viral photograph, although a series of images from Tucson's Kold News 13 appears to show the same melted vehicles. Here's a comparison of the vehicle in the background of the viral photo (right) with an image taken by the local news station (left):
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