\n\t\tSt. Pete man charged with causing $96,000 in damage to downtown luxury condo tower: SPPD\t<\/a><\/p>\nArrest documents show that on Sunday, at around 3:30 p.m., Ly Thien Pham went into a restaurant to pick up an Uber Eats order. When she left the establishment, she said she forgot where her car was parked. It wasn\u2019t until law enforcement showed up that the vehicle and the 1-year-old boy inside it were found \u2014 nearly 30 minutes later.<\/p>\n
\u201cA child\u2019s temperature can rise three to five times quicker than an adult, and the inside temperature of a car can rise up to 20 degrees higher than what the ambient temperature is,\u201d said Albert Madruga, firefighter and paramedic for St. Petersburg Fire Rescue. <\/p>\n
The boy was taken to Johns Hopkins All Children\u2019s Hospital for treatment. Monday, their staff told 8 On Your Side why babies and toddlers such as the one they treated are the most vulnerable when it comes to heatstroke.<\/p>\n
\u201cChildren are especially vulnerable because of their small size. They get overwhelmed by the heat very quickly, and obviously younger children can\u2019t let themselves out of the car,\u201d said Dr. Joseph Perno, chief medical officer for Johns Hopkins All Children\u2019s Hospital. <\/p>\n
The symptoms for heat exhaustion vary but can ultimately lead to a child\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a spectrum. So heat exhaustion starts with some confusion, lack of sweating, not peeing, that sort of stuff. But then it can go to total confusion, unconsciousness, seizures and death when the body just gets overwhelmed by that external heat,\u201d Perno said<\/p>\n
With back to school approaching, paramedics want to remind families to always check the backseat of the car and never leave unattended children inside a vehicle.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven if we\u2019re thinking 1 minute, we\u2019re going to run into the store to grab something really quick. Never. That should never be an excuse. You should never leave your child locked in a vehicle. Never leave your child behind. 1 minute can turn into a tragedy,\u201d said firefighter Albert Madruga. <\/p>\n
Experts recommend leaving something valuable in the backseat of a car that you can\u2019t leave without, like a shoe or a phone, to avoid forgetting to look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A woman is facing criminal charges after St. Pete police said a toddler…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-348490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348490","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=348490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}