Bakersfield, California (KGE) – Try to visualize it: You go through the shopping center of the mall. You notice the child in the car seat locked inside the car. What would you do? What should you do?
Let’s start here: don’t just go.
Temperatures inside the car can rise by 20 degrees by Fahrenheit in 10 minutes and rise quickly. Leaving the window, the crack does not significantly compare the process. Since 1990 More than 1,100 US children lost their lives in hot cars. May 15 children died this way.
This does not include AMill Gutierrez, 1, who died on June 29, after his mother, 20-year-old Maya Hernandez, left him and his older brother and sister in her car before she was treated with lip fillers in the Bakersfield Spa. She was accused of involuntary murder and brutal children.
This week’s 104 -degree day we asked Bakersfield buyers what they would do if they encountered a child or pet, locked in a hot car. Some had already experienced it.
Betty Eves once appeared on the wild scene, where her mother left the store to find paramedics pulling her child out of a locked car.
“The father came up with and was just hysterical,” said Evesa. “Oh, that’s my child, that’s my child. I don’t know what happened to her but the baby was fine.”
Nice Brown had similar experience with a dog outside the pet store.
“Someone in his car had a little chihuahua, we tracked the man down and they finished taking the dog,” he said. “We shouldn’t do it.”
So – what should you do?
“Contact the store management,” Maria Vasquez said. “See if there is someone who owns that vehicle in the store. If not, please contact the authorities.”
“Really call law enforcement right away,” said Rikki’s minus, who brought his 5-year-old to the grocery store. “Don’t leave the child. But if you can try to get in the car, break the window as soon as possible. Because it’s very sad. Too many kids die so much.”
However, it is not easy for everyone to crush the window.
“Call 9-1-1, be with people, be with the person next to the car,” said Christina Barela, who has bought a nearly 11-year-old daughter. “I don’t know if I would like to break the window. I think I would wait for someone to have tools to do so.”
And that’s okay, said firefighter Sean Rogers, a paramedic with the Bakersfield Fire Service.
“We always advise people to act according to their comfort,” he said. “You can start small and try (assess the situation). Are you in a restaurant or in a public place? Can you tell anyone? Is this vehicle belong to someone?
“Do what you have to do in that sense, and then escalate from there. If you can’t find the owner of the vehicle, parents, then you would take the next step. If you think someone’s threatening …
Isn’t that risky, don’t break someone’s window? Not necessarily. No, if you do it right, and limit yourself to the damage to the absolute minimum to achieve the rescue.
“While you are calling 9-1-1 and acting responsibly, good Samaritan laws are applicable to protect you,” Rogers said.
Such a tragedy can happen even to responsible parents who just happen to Space Out.
It is estimated that approximately 52% just looked after the heart.
What can parents do to remind themselves of having a baby on board? With your child, throw your wallet or a short tray in the back seat, so you are forced to look back there before leaving the vehicle. Place the stuffed animal on the front seat as a reminder that you have a passenger.
When it comes to passers-by, which are confronted with locked children in parking lots-when doubts, do it.
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