(25 Jun 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cambridge, Massachusetts – 24 June 2025
1. Various of workers loading dry ice into boxes
2. Acme Ice and Dry Ice Company owner Marc Savenor answering calls
3. Wide of workers loading dry ice into boxes
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Marc Savenor, Owner, Acme Ice and Dry Ice Company:
"My name is Marc Savenor. I work at Acme Ice and Dry Ice Company. I own the company and what I do is supply ice to all the different Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks, McDonalds, biotech industry, whoever calls us and we are definitely needed today, I'll tell you. It's hot as, you know, can be and as you know, everybody needs ice."
5. Close of Savenor answering calls
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Marc Savenor, Owner, Acme Ice and Dry Ice Company:
"During the heat waves, my phone will ring at 3 in the morning till 11 at night and there's no help for the... help for weary here because you've got to get it when it's coming in and everybody wants some."
7. Mid of workers loading dry ice into boxes
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Marc Savenor, Owner, Acme Ice and Dry Ice Company:
"Like you hear, the phone is ringing off the wall, but you know, in the winter they don't want to know us, but in the summer they definitely want to know us, and we're pretty well known right now."
9. Savenor uses a forklift to load the bulk-storage container into a customer’s truck
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Marc Savenor, Owner, Acme Ice and Dry Ice Company:
"It kind of makes the phone ring a lot more because everybody is in need of ice at the same time because nobody's ice machines are working and it's very hot out."
11. Close up of dry ice
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Marc Savenor, Owner, Acme Ice and Dry Ice Company:
"I mean, this is an ice man's dream. The heat, you know. I've been doing this for 43 years, and every summer we have heat waves, and I love it, I'm used to it, I thrive on it, and I look forward to the next heat wave."
13. Close up of workers loading dry ice into boxes
14. Savenor asking client to hold a call
STORYLINE:
As sprawling heat dome spawns temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit across the eastern United States, one New England business owner is relishing a spike in demand for his ice and dry ice from businesses and consumers desperate for relief from the extreme heat.
Marc Savenor, who owns Acme Ice and Dry Ice Company and calls himself "The Ice Man," struggles to keep up with phones ringing off the wall as the record-breaking heat wave overwhelmed ice machines and refrigerators, forcing customers to seek emergency supplies.
"Like you hear, the phone is ringing off the wall, but you know, in the winter they don't want to know us, but in the summer they definitely want to know us, and we're pretty well known right now," Savenor said.
His business, based in Cambridge, ... [truncated]
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