A young Maribyrnong girl is recovering in hospital after being locked in a hot car as temperatures soared on Tuesday afternoon.
Advanced life support paramedics were called to the car parked outside a house just after 1pm.
Paramedic Ben Dalton said the girl’s mother had been unable to get her daughter out.
“The young girl was still strapped in her car seat and was quite hot and sweating,” he said.
“Based on what we were told we think the toddler was in the car parked in the sun for almost 30 minutes.”
The MFB smashed a window to get the girl out of the car.
Mr Dalton said she sweating profusely and there was potential for the situation to quickly become life threatening.
The girl was taken to the Royal Children’s Hospital in a stable condition.
Ambulance Victoria paramedics were called to five other cases of children locked in cars on Tuesday.
Paramedics have been called to more than 200 cases of children locked in cars across Victoria in the first five weeks of 2015, including more than 70 calls in the northern and western suburbs.
Two children have died in hot cars in Victoria in recent years.
Ambulance Victoria tests have found that even on a 29-degree day the inside of a car can reach 44 degrees within 10 minutes and hit 60 degrees within 20 minutes.
Ambulance Victoria Group Manager Brett Drummond is frustrated the message isn’t getting through.
“It’s never OK to leave a child in a car, no exceptions, no excuses.”
