Dramatic video shows toddler rescued from scorching hot vehicle

The two adults who were watching the child told police she had been alone for about four minutes.

Merriam Police said that it was 91 degrees that day with a heat index of 101 degrees.

Sarah Oropeza, the manager at a Famous Footwear, tried breaking the window with whatever she could find, including a screwdriver and a tire iron.

“The windows were totally rolled up, all the doors were locked”.

“She was drenched in sweat, like, her shoes were wet”, said Sarah Oropeza. “She had pulled her hair back and sweat was just dripping”, Oropeza said.

She got it to crack when another woman comes up with a truck hitch that was thrown at the window.

Tears only turned to anger she says as the couple supposedly caring for the girl came inside the shoe store.

“I was just praying, “Break the window”. Oropeza wrote on Facebook that she was working nearby when an employee alerted her that there was a child trapped in a hot vehicle in the parking lot. “She is going to die”, Oropeza said.

So she started grabbing whatever she could and kept hitting the window until she could break it. “Somebody needs to help me.'”.

The incident occurred Saturday afternoon in Johnson County. The child was checked out and later picked up by another family member. Oropeza said they claimed the toddler was their niece.

Oropeza and an officer told the couple to leave the store.

Police ticketed the couple for child endangerment and the case is going to the district attorney’s office for possible charges.

“We take these matters very seriously”, he said. It is a nightmare for any parent, but in Kansas Saturday, it wasn’t the child’s parents who came to the rescue. The temperature inside a auto can be dangerously hot, even if the outside temperature feels relatively cool.