Cars 'deadly' in heat for pets and toddlers

ITS JUST NOT FAIR!!!!!!!!!!

Toddler found in car dies
Aust
Jason Staines
January 3, 2007 - 5:19PM

A two-year-old girl suffering cardiac arrest has died after being found in a car in Melbourne's outer west.

Paramedics performed CPR on the girl for just under an hour at the scene in Truganina, a Metropolitan Ambulance Service spokesman said.

They rushed the girl to Sunshine Hospital, but she died at about 3.50pm, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The girl was found in a car parked outside a home on Doubell Boulevard.

It is not yet known whether police have spoken to the child's parents.

The temperature was 32 degrees Celsius outside, and up to 60 degrees inside the car, when the girl was found.

Metropolitan Ambulance Service (MAS) spokesman James Howe said it was unclear how long the girl had been in the car before emergency services were alerted, but it was an "extensive amount of time''.

"When they arrived the child had been taken out of the car but was in cardiac arrest,'' he told Southern Cross Broadcasting.

"They've continued to proceed performing CPR for just under an hour before taking her to Sunshine Hospital.''

Cars 'deadly' in heat

Mr Howe said cars could become deadly within minutes on hot days.

"We did some research about three years ago where we rested a thermometer inside a car on a 20 degree day.

"We had all the windows wound up and no air conditioning on and within 20 minutes it had gone from 20 degrees to 60 degrees inside that car.

"It happened so quickly and the problem with young children is that they don't have the ability to regulate their temperature in the same way that an adult does.''

A police spokesman said it was too early for police to comment on the incident.

"It's too early on in the piece for us, we're just sort of coming to terms with what's happened,'' the spokesman said.
The Age