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Slide the City makes a splash in Chattanooga [photo gallery]

Maria Chavez, top, and her daughter Camilla collide with a safety officer at the bottom of the water slide during the Slide the City event Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, in Chattanooga. A giant slip-and-slide style water slide was set up on Fifth Street for the event.
Maria Chavez, top, and her daughter Camilla collide with a safety officer at the bottom of the water slide during the Slide the City event Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, in Chattanooga. A giant slip-and-slide style water slide was set up on Fifth Street for the event.

By Staff Report, Doug Strickland 1 min read

Slide the City helped people beat the heat Saturday, Aug. 13, in Chattanooga.

Slide the City is a 1,000-foot-long water slide – think your backyard Slip ‘N’ Slide on steroids – that flowed down Fifth Street all the way across Broad Street in downtown Chattanooga.

Visitors slid down its padded surface in inner tubes, splashing through three city blocks.

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