Bella Martinez, 4, reacts to a small wave while cooling off with her mother, Mildred Rodriguez, of Meriden, at Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison, July 24, 2022. “She lives in the water if we let her,” said Rodriguez. Sunday was the sixth consecutive day temperatures in parts of Connecticut reached into the 90s. Photo by Cloe Poisson/Special to the Courant (Cloe Poisson / Special to the Courant)