Crime & Safety
RivCo Police Rescue Baby Left In Hot Car; Father Arrested
Officers breached a window of the sedan to free the infant from the vehicle, which police say had reached 110 degrees inside.
CORONA, CA — Riverside County police shattered the window of a vehicle to get to an infant left in a dangerously hot vehicle, authorities said this week.
The father, who was inside a post office, was arrested, according to The Press Enterprise.
On June 17, officers responded to a call of a baby alone in a vehicle with the engine off and windows up, The Corona Police Department said in a statement.
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Upon arrival to the post office at 414 W. Grand Blvd. at 5:36 p.m., officers discovered the baby inside "in distress." Footage posted to the department's Instagram page shows an officer breaking the front window with a baton, while another unlocked the back door to rescue the infant from the backseat.
The Corona Fire Department used a thermo-device and told officers that the internal temperature of the vehicle was 110 degrees.
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Officers then found the father inside the post office and arrested him, The Press-Enterprise reported.
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