A 1-year-old Florida boy died after being left in a hot car for several hours on Wednesday.
According to Fox 13, in St. Petersburg, a father left his child in the car all day and did not realize it until he tried to pick the one-year-old up from daycare, forgetting to drop him off first.
“The father had the child in the morning and – since it was not part of their routine – took the child to an appointment with him,” said SPPD spokesperson Yolanda Fernandez.pokesperson Yolanda Fernandez.
After the father’s appointment, he was supposed to drop the child off at daycare before heading home to his work-from-home job.
Around 5 p.m., the father went to the Bayfront Health Child Development Center off of 6th Avenue South to pick up his child.
“The father went in to try to pick the child up, but the daycare said, ‘You never dropped him off.’ At that point, the father realized what was going on and went back out to the car,” Fernandez said.
Emergency responders were called to the childcare facility, where they attempted to perform CPR on the child but were unable to resuscitate him. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators believe he had been in the car all day.
Meteorologists reported that it was a record high of 91 degrees on Wednesday. “In just ten minutes, it can become 20 degrees hotter inside a vehicle with the doors closed,” said Lindsay Judah, Chief of Rescue for St. Petersburg Fire-Rescue.
No charges have been filed.
This is the third confirmed hot car death in Florida and the 36th nationwide this year, according to Jan Null, CCM Adjunct Professor of Meteorology at San Jose State University.
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