This has to stop: Toddler rescued from 36C car at shopping centre
A toddler has been left locked inside a car at a Darwin shopping centre in 36C heat.
A two-year-old child was spotted crying inside a parked vehicle at Casuarina Shopping Centre in the city’s northern suburbs at around 3pm on Sunday.
Paramedics were called to the car and rescued the child before the father arrived back to his car, St John Ambulance regional manager Andrew Everingham said.
“Once they got access to the child, they provided first aid and transported them to Royal Darwin Hospital for assessment,” Everingham told NT News.
“Luckily the child did not show any symptoms of heat stroke despite being extremely distressed.”
Everingham reminded parents not to leave children alone in hot cars this summer.
“It doesn’t take long for a child to become really distressed and overcome by that heat,” he said.
The incident came less than two weeks after a five-year-old girl died in the Hunter region of NSW. Father of Natasha Gorjup said he thought she was playing in the garden when she climbed into the parked car on her own. The girl was found unresponsive in the car on a 35C day and was rushed to John Hunter Hospital in a critical condition, but died five days later.