LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — A demonstration at Sunrise Children’s Hospital showed how quickly a parked car can turn deadly for a child.
A thermometer inside a vehicle jumped about three degrees every minute during the demonstration. Even with outside temperatures only in the 80s, the inside shot past 150 degrees.
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Doctors said a child’s body heats up three to five times faster than an adult’s. At a core temperature of 104 degrees, organs start to shut down, and at 107 degrees, heatstroke can be fatal.
The event comes days after three children died in hot car incidents in a single day across the country.
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