How To Adopt A Child In Nj

>> narrator: from the ground up summer's heatwaves singe and broil. and inside a closed parked car they can kill. >> dr. robinson: car temperatures on a sunnyday, car temperatures and rise 30 to 40 degrees fahrenheit over what the outside air temperatureis within an hour. >> narrator: that phenomenon kills up to 38children a year. left unattended while parents

How To Adopt A Child In Nj, or guardians jump out for errands, appointments,or just forget the child's in the back seat. and there's the common excuse that, well,it was just for a few seconds. >> patrolman hoover: it's not five seconds.it's really 15 minutes, 20 minutes. i mean we've even encountered people that have doneentire grocery shopping errands and left their

kid in the car because they were asleep. >> narrator: so wherever in the garden statethat adults go this summer they're bound to go where a new jersey campaign reminds themabout hot car risks to children. >> dr. radhakrishnan: they heat up very quickly.they have less body ... ability to cool themselves down by sweating so they are at much higherrisk for heatstroke then usual adults or older children are. >> narrator: the danger looks a lot like thisanimation. a closed car acts like a greenhouse. as sunlight beams through windows it trapsheat that can't get back out. it may be 80 degrees outside but in half an hour it's 114inside. in an hour its 123, hot enough to

dehydrate little kids till their organs shutdown. >> dr. radhakrishnan: it's thickening of blood.it's affecting your brain because you're brain get less oxygenation. the rest of your bodysystems are all put under stress at that point so it's a shutdown of your body systems oneat a time. >> dr. robinson: most deaths of children incars occur on days when the actual ambient or outside air temperature is 85 or 90 degreesor warmer. >> narrator: while heat can be deadly, nochild needs to die in a hot car, so new jersey's hot car campaign may serve as a dashboardreminder about who's in the back seat. >> patrolman hoover: you know we look at ourkids as being the jewel; it's what we live

our lives for. and to put your child at riskfor that for that one second thing that they're going to be okay, it's just not enough. >> narrator: for the new jersey departmentof children and families, this is marc levenson.