Bodycam shows what happened when 'distressed' baby was found in roasting car with its windows up
The Corona Police department in California shared the video to serve as a warning for residents as scorching summer temperatures continue to rise.
They were called to the scene on June 17 amid reports of a baby alone in a car with 'the engine off and windows up.'
'When officers arrived on scene, they observed the baby in distress, and breached a window to extricate him,' they said.
The footage shows the two officers rushing to the car and not hesitating once they realized the baby was inside.
One officer peered inside the front windscreen and returned a moment later with a metal crowbar used to shatter the front driver's side window.
The car was then unlocked from the inside and the second officer immediately pulled the tiny baby out of the back seat.
A thermometer reading of the car revealed the internal temperature had reached 110 degrees.
The officer holding the baby tried to soothe the child, patting its back and rocking it gently.
It is unclear how long the baby was trapped in the car.
Officers also did not provide any further details about the child's parents.
The inside of a car would take just 20 minutes to warm up to 110 degrees even on a mild day.
There are countless tragic stories of babies dying after being left or forgotten inside hot cars.
A Florida father was last week arrested and charged with manslaughter of a child and child neglect charges after his baby boy roasted to death in a hot car while he went drinking at a bar, police said.
Sebastian Gardner, 18 months, had a body temperature of more than 110 degrees when he was found in the back of the vehicle on June 6.
His father, Scott Allen Gardner, 33, allegedly left his son in his truck in 92F heat for more than three hours while he got a haircut and went drinking inside Ormond Beach's Hanky Panky's Lounge, Volusia Sheriff's Office said.
'During the investigation, Gardner gave multiple false accounts of what occurred that day,' police said.
Weeks earlier, Louisiana father Joseph Boatman was also arrested and charged after his 21-month-old daughter died strapped inside a car for more than nine hours.
Sheriff Randy Smith said at the time: 'When a child is left in a vehicle, especially on a day when the heat index climbs over 100 degrees, the outcome can turn deadly in a matter of minutes.
'This case involved compromised judgment, and the result was heartbreaking.'
At least 1,130 children have died in hot vehicles in the country since 1990, and at least another 75,000 survived with injuries, according to Kids and Car Safety.
Every year, an average of 38 children die in hot cars and about 88 percent of them are three-year-old or younger, per the statistics.
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