In the News

Heat Related Injuries and Deaths (Hyperthermia)
Incidences Occurring During 2000 and Prior
  • Tot Dies in Hot Vehicle
    Houston Chronicle, Houston, TX
    October 29, 2000

  • Five-Month-Old Dies After Being Left in Car
    Boston Globe, Boston, MA
    September 20, 2000
    By Scott S. Greenberger, and Andy Dabilis, Globe Staff
    A Jamaica Plain infant died yesterday after she spent an entire workday in the back of a steamy car where she had been unwittingly left by her father, who was supposed to drop her off at a day care center in West Roxbury. © Copyright 1998 Globe Newspaper Company.

  • Grandmom is Indicted in DeKalb
    The Atlanta Consitution, Atlanta, GA
    August 25, 2000

  • Heat Claims Life of Another Infant: A 4-Month-Old Boy is Left in a Car in Needles. It is the Second Death of its Kind in a Week.
    Press Enterprise, Riverside, CA
    August 22, 2000

  • Boy Left in Car Nearly 9 Hours by Grandmother, Dies
    The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, GA
    August 15, 2000

  • Baby Left Unattended in Hot Car
    Portsmouth Herald, Portsmouth, NH
    August 9, 2000

  • Boy Crawls into Auto, Dies of Heat; 3 or 4 Door Handles Missingr
    The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona
    May 25, 2000

  • Baby Dies After Being Left in Hot Car
    Savannah Morning News, Savannah, GA
    May 24, 2000

  • Mom Pleads Guilty in Girl's Death: Child Left in Hot Car
    Press Enterprise, Riverside, CA
    October 9, 1999