A time of hose pipe bans and lazy weekends

[tectak]

Two hundred and twelve was a sizzler:Holy shit, how old are you billy? Two thousand, surely? Still scans so maybe change it? Unless, of course, you are talking degrees fahrenheit!!!
Summer emptied it's hot ash pan all overA lost metaphor because I cannot get the Pompeii purpose. Why ash?
greedy asthmatics that sucked life from inhalersThis seems a peculiarly targetted group in such a diverse situation. I can see it, but I am uncomfortable with the ethical points. "Greedy" though adequately describing the action is not framed as a metaphor but as a comment. "Asthmatics sucked life from hissing inhalors, with need close to greed, in emergency rooms". Your poem.
before hitting the nation's emergency rooms.
Cooling beer used up electricity
faster than a Tesla experiment in Colorado;A semicolon here is wrong. The Colorado clause (and I like it) is complete. There is no requirement to link to "...the sun's reflection..." so encapsulate the clause with a full stop after Colorado. I like semicolons but not always.
the sun's reflection lived in every bead of salted sweat."Salted" is superfluous. Without it, the line scans smoother, too.

Everyone's kids looked like sun dried tomatoes I don't know about this. "All of the kids looked like sun-dried tomatoes" seems easier. Again, your poem, but I just do not see the need for parental possessiveness as a kiddy characteristic.
covered in whitewash, sun-factor gazillion.Hmmm. OK. A gazillion I know. Yep, as a throwaway it works...but you wouldn't get it past the ASA
Burnt breasts were proudly hoisted
on freckled forearms and over garden fences.Like this. Seen it. Yes to freckled people burning...er...as an observation not a wish
The t shirt was in, then off; men strutted like cocks
and showed off six packs, old men under hankies
pulled in one packs, but not for long.This is clunking along. You are trying to say too much about too many things in too short a time. Split this up in to identifiable cameos. Take some time over it.

Ugly girls were pretty too, in the heatFullstop after too. New sentence, comma after heat at line end.
nipples drilled into a casual glance, or seasoned stare.
braver ones whipped them out for an even tan. You are now stumbling in to the last furlong and it is down hill. "braver ones" is unrelatable.Define who you are referring too. " Breasts of the brave were whipped out, to tan even, and if you were lucky you might cream them up." A bit vernacular, but that's the point, I guess.
If you were lucky you got to cream them up.
Sometimes it was scary, the kids giggledSometimes it was scary as heat-stroked kids giggled,
and threw water ballons from windows upstairs.
and threw water balloons from upstairs windows
The dog lay in the shade between the garage
and the shed, panting.Phew!

Hi billy,
A good job overall. I get a bit precious over rhythm in free verse/prose because I just do not see any virtue in avoiding ALL poetic endeavour and just splitting up text with line breaks. Some do. Listen to them and go home happy
You win on concept....as always.
Best,
tectak