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Toledoans still scurrying for water supplies

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Melvin Newton, from Toledo, carries containers of water across Monroe Street that he got at the water distribution center sponsored by the Cherry Street Mission on August 3, 2014. The line of cars behind, which was waiting for water, was backed-up all the way to Dorr Street.

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Dan Rogers, right, President & CEO Cherry Street Mission Ministries, helps organize the free water distribution area at the former Macomber High School on the second day of a clean water emergency.

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Suzette Moore, left. from Toledo, accepts a cooler filled with purified drinking water from Staff Sgt. Brock Mowry, right, of the 200th Red Horse Engineers, at Woodward High School. Moore waled to the distribution center with her family to get potable water.

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Dan Rogers, left, President & CEO Cherry Street Mission Ministries, and TPD Officer Joseph Taylor, right, discuss how to redirect the public to water distribution areas after the supplies offered by the Cherry Street Mission, at the former Macomber High School, were gone by mid-morning.

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Willie Knighten Jr., center in white shirt, hands out jugs of free water to a family who walked to the former Macomber High School building to get clean drinking water.

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A pallet of "misty Pure" water for pets was available for free to pet owners in the area.

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Shelly Genaro, with the American Red Cross, directs traffic to a water distribution area for free water at Woodward High School.

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Staff Sgt. Josh Reiss, left, and Staff Sgt. Brock Mowry, right, of the 200th Red Horse Engineers, fill a cooler with water from a "Water Buffalo", which was purified by the Air Force.

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Volunteer Noah Rose, left, 16, and Shawn Kellerbauer, right, an employee with the Cherry Street Mission, direct traffic along Washington and 16th Streets to the area at the former Macomber High School building where people were able to get free water until supplies ran out.

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Mekyaela Fears, from Toledo, steps out of her car to entertain her dog Daichi while she waits in line along Washington and 16th Streets to get water at the former Macomber High School building.

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Staff Sgt. Josh Reiss, of the 200th Red Horse Engineers, directs a pallet of water to a storing area in the parking lot of Woodward High School.

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Staff Sgt. Josh Reiss, of the 200th Red Horse Engineers, directs a pallet of water to a storing area in the parking lot of Woodward High School.

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Volunteers including Carl Schellkopf, right, help load free water into cars for the public at a water distribution area at the former Macomber High School.

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Shelly Genaro, with the American Red Cross, directs traffic to a water distribution area for free water.

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