Burleson Boy Dies in Hot auto

Burleson Police Department Officer Jae Berg talks to the press Sunday after a Burleson child reported missing died after being found in a hot auto.

Burleson police Deputy Chief Chris Havens said the boy’s family called around 1 p.m. Sunday to report the child missing and officers arrived minutes later to help look for him. He was found in the backseat passenger side of his mother’s 1998 Ford Taurus, parked in the street in front of the home, by an officer.

The child was then transported to Cook Children’s Medical Center in critical, “potentially life threatening”, condition, said Matt Zavadsky, public affairs director for MedStar. Zachary died in the hospital’s emergency room, his father said. Police searched the home and the nearby areas.

BURLESON (CBSDFW.COM) -Authorities say they were searching for a five-year-old with autism who wandered from his home. Firefighters tried to cool the child and started CPR. The heat inside cars can reach higher temperatures within minutes.

“I don’t know how I’m going to live”, said a visibly distraught Darek. “He knew he was going to go”.

Darek told WFAA-TV he was in the back yard building a swing set for his son.

“These vehicles are really attractive to little ones”, Fennell told the Dallas Morning News.

What is also surprising is that Janette Fennell, president and founder of Kids and Cars says 33 percent of hot auto deaths occur when a child gets into a vehicle and can’t get out.

He said he was unsure if the vehicle belonged to the family.