JOHNSBURG – Beads of sweat rolled off Tom Flanagan’s forehead recently as he labored outside under the beating sun on Johnsburg Road and Route 31.

Flanagan and Steve Mulder, a fellow perspiring co-worker, were installing piping for an underground storage tank outside of an empty Marathon gas station scheduled to open by the end of the month.

The workers were doing their job on a day when the National Weather Service had issued a heat advisory for the area. The high temperatures were expected to climb to or surpass 100 degrees.