City of SeaTac, Wash. June 3, 2013 – Each spring and summer you read the articles in the newspaper or hear it on the evening news: a child has died after being left alone in a vehicle due to hyperthermia (elevated body temperature). Some of the children are left in the vehicle intentionally so an adult can run a “quick” errand and some are left accidentally after the driver exits the vehicle, forgetting to remove the child.

According to San Francisco State University, 49 children died of hyperthermia in this country after being left in a vehicle in 2010. In the last 10 years, more than half of those children that died were under two years of age and almost 95% were under five years of age.

People shake their heads and cannot understand how a person can leave a child in a car on a warm day. It is easier than you think and with warmer weather coming into the Puget Sound area it is a subject that anyone with a child in their care should be aware of.

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