Rescue operation in Dornbirn: Bub freed from hot car!

Rescue operation in Dornbirn: Bub freed from hot car!

Dornbirn, Österreich - in Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, there was a dramatic effort on Friday morning when a two -year -old boy was locked in a parked car for around 20 minutes. The situation escalated when the vehicle doors locked and both the keys and mobile phone of the 34-year-old mother remained in the car. The concerned mother immediately contacted the rescue and fire brigade control center and her partner. The father was the first to arrive at the scene and hit the passenger window with a hammer to free his son. Fortunately, the boy survived the incident unscathed and was immediately supplied with water by the rescue workers. The Krone reports that there was no health risk thanks to the rapid action of the parents.

This moving rescue operation, however, highlights the dangers that children are also exposed to in supposedly harmless situations. The risks are increasing significantly, especially in summer. A tragic incident near Bludenz illustrates this: A 19-month-old boy died there when his 17-year-old mother left him in the car for several hours at high temperatures. As reported by the Orf Vorarlberg, the car was parked in a place that was not visible from the outside, which increased the tragic circumstances. The mother had left the child in the child seat so as not to wake it up while she went into the apartment with her 20-year-old friend and finally fell asleep. Only in the evening when the two woke up did they find their child lifeless in the vehicle.

The dangers of Hitznetod in the car

experts urgently warn of the potentially fatal dangers that bring it with it to leave children in the car. The Berliner Morgenpost explains that the interior temperature of a vehicle can rise to an outside temperature of 28 degrees to 45 degrees. Children are particularly susceptible to heat shells because they sweat less compared to adults and have an unfavorable body surface in relation to their volume. In the United States, around 40 children die in the car in the car every year. Over 50% of these cases result from the fact that children are forgotten by their parents in everyday stress.

In order to avoid such tragic incidents, experts recommend developing rituals or using memory slips to prevent children's forgetting in the vehicle. In Germany, it is legally allowed to take the disc of a car to save a helpless child. In an emergency, it is crucial to choose the emergency call and act immediately to free the child from the vehicle and to cool it.

This awareness of the dangers and the necessary measures to prevent are crucial to protect the life of children and prevent tragic fates.