{"id":40975,"date":"2014-06-05T20:40:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T00:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=40975"},"modified":"2014-06-05T20:40:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T00:40:05","slug":"mmdhd-159","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/mmdhd-159\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars, children and heat don\u2019t mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heatstroke in vehicles<!--more--><br \/>\nAs parents, grandparents, or caregivers, we\u2019ve all been there- you need to make a quick stop at the store, and it would sure be a whole lot easier and faster to just leave the kids in the car. After all, what could it hurt? You\u2019ll only be gone a few minutes. While leaving children unattended in a car is never a good idea for many reasons, as the weather heats up it\u2019s especially dangerous, because a few minutes is all it takes for tragedy to strike.<br \/>\nLast year, at least 44 children died from heatstroke in vehicles across the country, three of which occurred in Michigan.<br \/>\nMany people probably don\u2019t know that a child\u2019s body heats up three to five times faster than an adult\u2019s, making them more susceptible to heatstroke, or that it doesn\u2019t have to be a heat wave for a child to get overheated. Even mild temperatures can be dangerous as the temperature inside a car can rise 20 degrees in as little as 10 minutes, and can easily be double the temperature outside.\u00a0<br \/>\nTo help prevent this tragedy from striking, remember to <strong>ACT<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<strong>A<\/strong>: Avoid heatstroke-related injury and death by never leaving your child alone in a car, not even for a minute. And make sure to keep your car locked when not using it so kids don\u2019t get in on their own.\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>C<\/strong>: Create reminders by putting something in the back of your car next to your child such as a briefcase, a purse or a cell phone. This is especially important if you\u2019re not following your normal routine.<br \/>\n<strong>T<\/strong>: Take action. If you see or hear a child alone in a car, call 911. Emergency personnel are trained to respond to these situations. One call could save a life.<br \/>\nFor more information and safety tips about preventing child heatstroke deaths, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safekids.org\/heatstroke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.safekids.org\/heatstroke<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heatstroke in vehicles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}