{"id":412829,"date":"2026-08-21T11:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/412829\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T11:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:52:15","slug":"5-year-old-dies-after-being-left-in-hot-car-outside-her-home-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/412829\/","title":{"rendered":"5-year-old dies after being left in hot car outside her home in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GARLAND, Texas (WFAA) &#8211; A 5-year-old girl died this week after she was left inside a car outside her home during an extreme heat warning impacting North Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It was more than 100 degrees in Garland Tuesday when police said a driver brought two kids home from school. One child got out. The 5-year-old girl did not, and died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThere are no words to describe how devastating this can be,\u201d said Officer Matt Pesta with the Garland Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Garland police are investigating how it happened. No charges have been filed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The family told detectives it took some time to realize she was still in the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThey started looking everywhere, right? Like you would a child, and then they started looking outside. Is she out there playing? You know, where\u2019s she at? And then somebody located her still in the vehicle,\u201d Pesta said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A family member was doing CPR when first responders arrived. Police say the girl may have been in the car for hours.<\/p>\n<p>Heat turns deadly quickly<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kidsandcars.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kidsandcars.org\/\">Kids and Car Safety<\/a> data manager Chloe Burke said the heat made the situation fatal quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt was definitely fatal very quickly,\u201d Burke said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kids and Car Safety said this is at least the 23rd hot car death in the U.S. this year. The nonprofit has tracked nearly 1,200 since 1990.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cMost of these cases are a mix of stress or fatigue, and then a change in routine. This is not a lapse of love. It\u2019s just a lapse of memory, and you know, this could really happen to anyone,\u201d Burke said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GARLAND, Texas (WFAA) &#8211; A 5-year-old girl died this week after she was left inside a car outside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[144040,144042,87249,144039,144038,144046,144044,144041,160,162,161,144043,144045],"class_list":["post-412829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-child-left-in-hot-car","tag-extreme-heat-warning-north-texas","tag-garland-police-department","tag-garland-texas","tag-hot-car-death","tag-how-long-can-a-child-survive-in-a-hot-car","tag-how-many-hot-car-deaths-have-there-been-in-2026","tag-kids-and-safety-nonprofit","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-what-happened-to-a-5-year-old-girl-in-garland-texas","tag-why-do-children-die-in-hot-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}