KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — As temperatures are rising, the temperature in your car is too. The Knoxville Police Department is urging parents and guardians to never leave a child alone in a parked vehicle after rescuing a toddler Friday.
Since 1998, over a thousand children have died in hot cars.
“Anytime you run a pediatric type call, it’s very hard on the responder, especially if it’s something that could have been avoided, something that necessarily didn’t have to happen,” said Knoxville Fire Department Assistant Chief Mark Wilbanks.
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Per the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 52% of all deaths happened because the child was forgotten, 47% of the time they meant to drop their child off at school or daycare, more than half the deaths happened to children under the age of two, with most deaths occurring on a Thursday or Friday, the end of the work week…