{"id":332285,"date":"2026-07-07T21:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332285\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T21:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:02:09","slug":"fl-toddler-dies-after-being-left-in-hot-car-by-babysitter-marking-4th-hot-car-death-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332285\/","title":{"rendered":"FL Toddler Dies After Being Left In Hot Car By Babysitter, Marking 4th Hot-Car Death This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The child was identified as an 18-month-old boy who attended the preschool, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/07\/06\/2-year-old-dies-in-a-hot-car-outside-hallandale-beach-home-second-in-a-week-in-south-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">South Florida Sun Sentinel<\/a> reported. <\/p>\n<p>When his father went to pick up the boy from the center after work, the Sentinel reported he realized the boy had been left in the car all day. <\/p>\n<p>Four children have died in hot cars this year in Florida, according to data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kidsandcars.org\/2026-child-hot-car-deaths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kids and Cars.<\/a> Nationally, there have been 10 children to die in hot cars. <\/p>\n<p>A female infant died on March 31 in Winter Haven, and a 3-year-old boy died on June 20 in Riverview, according to the data.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Children and Families offer the following tips to prevent heat-related deaths of children in cars: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The child was identified as an 18-month-old boy who attended the preschool, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-332285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332285","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=332285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}