Baby dies after being left in hot car in Phoenix

PHOENIX — A 7-month-old baby boy has died after being left in a hot car on Friday in Phoenix.

The Phoenix Fire Department responded to a call Friday afternoon when the child was found not breathing inside of a vehicle.

The National Weather Service reported the high on Friday in Phoenix as being 101 degrees.

The baby’s death marks the first hot car death in Maricopa County this summer.

Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery told KTAR News 92.3 FM in May that he hoped to build on the success of last year’s Don’t Leave Me Behind campaign, an effort to remind parents that hot cars and their children don’t mix.

During last year’s campaign, there were no deaths in hot cars. it was the first time in years that the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office had recorded a summer without a single death of a child or animal in a hot car.

A report earlier this year showed that Arizona had the fourth-most child vehicular heat stroke deaths in the country between 1998 and 2016.

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