Number of Youngsters Dying Inside Vehicles Rising with the Temperature

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WASHINGTON - Temperatures are rising and so are reports of infants and toddlers dying inside sizzling automobiles.

A researcher says 18 children have died of hyperthermia since the beginning of the year, with eight deaths reported since June 13. That's the largest number of fatalities through the first half of a year since Jan Null, an adjunct professor of meteorology at San Francisco State University, began tracking the data in the late 1990s.

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Number of Youngsters Dying Inside Vehicles Rising with the Temperature

Two of the deaths occurred in Tennessee.

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