An Arizona girl was found dead inside a hot car Sunday marking the 31st pediatric vehicular heatstroke in the US this year.
The 4-year-old girl was found unresponsive in the car by a family member at around 5 p.m.
Police and medics rushed to the home near McDowell Road and Sienna Hills Parkway and unsuccessfully tried to revive the girl before taking her to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Investigators learned that the family left the girl in the car for several hours after returning from a park around 2 p.m.
The National Weather Service says that temperatures at Buckeye that day reached about 101 degrees.
“With an outside air temperature of approximately 104 degrees in Buckeye this afternoon, the interior temperature of the car could have been on the order of 150 degrees,” said Jan Null, Adjust Professor of Meteorology at San Jose State University.
“Objects or a person inside the car in direct sunlight would have been significantly hotter.”
