{"id":215378,"date":"2026-04-02T01:40:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215378\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T01:40:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:40:31","slug":"baby-left-in-vehicle-in-winter-haven-dies-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215378\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby left in vehicle in Winter Haven dies: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">WINTER HAVEN, Fla. &#8211; An infant has died after police said it was left in a vehicle earlier this week in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/polk\/winter-haven\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Winter Haven<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">According to the Winter Haven Police Department, officers and fire rescue crews went to a home on Ave. N NW in Winter Haven shortly before 4 p.m. on Tuesday for an infant who had reportedly been left inside a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">When crews arrived, they said they immediately began life-saving measures and took the child to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">On Wednesday morning, police confirmed that the baby passed away.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">It is unclear how long the child had been in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Police did not release the circumstances that led up to the child being left in the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written with information in a press release from the Winter Haven Police Department as well as a conversation with Public Information Officer Jamie Brown.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/polk\/winter-haven\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winter Haven<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINTER HAVEN, Fla. &#8211; An infant has died after police said it was left in a vehicle earlier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,115,7153,135,137,136,628,21956],"class_list":{"0":"post-215378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-fl","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-polk","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-headlines","13":"tag-tampa-news","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-winter-haven"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}