2022
August
29,
2022
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12:30 PM
America/Chicago
By Linda GoelzerHeat illness during sports practice or competition is among the leading causes of death in the U.S. for high school athletes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Scorching summer sun and high temperature...
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2021
June
21,
2021
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15:21 PM
America/Chicago
The family of Michael Stuyvesant knows he beat the odds on a hot June day six years ago when he survived being accidentally left in the mini-van parked outside their Garland home.Michael, 3 years old at the time, experienced brain swelling, seizures ...
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2020
June
19,
2020
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11:00 AM
America/Chicago
Children in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico can now stay close to home while receiving highly specialized cardiothoracic surgery, thanks to a newly formed partnership between Cook Children’s Health Care System and Covenant Children’s.
Surgery te...
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2018
July
16,
2018
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15:51 PM
America/Chicago
As North Texas prepares for its hottest temperatures in two years, the dangers for your child also increases. According to the National Weather Service, heat is the No. 1 weather-related killer in the United States.
The highs this week will be abo...
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2017
July
21,
2017
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09:58 AM
America/Chicago
Your kids have been cooped up all summer playing video games and now they want to go outside and play finally.
But are they ready for the hottest part of the year?
Locally, the National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory that remains i...
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2016
September
23,
2016
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11:03 AM
America/Chicago
Every summer you see a big push from us about not leaving your child in a hot vehicle. But the fall is not bringing us any relief from the heat and two children have died this week as a result of being left in a car.
According to noheatstroke.org,...
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July
25,
2016
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09:30 AM
America/Chicago
So far this year, 21 children have died in the United States as a result of being left in a hot car, according to the Department of Meteorology & Climate Science. The most recent case happened over the weekend in Dallas when a 3-year-old boy was repo...
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January
15,
2016
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13:55 PM
America/Chicago
It may sound unbelievable this time of the year, but the first heatstroke death of 2016 has been confirmed. It happened on Jan. 12, in Rossville, Georgia. The 13-month-old child died after being left in a car for more than 5 hours with the heater run...
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