Ministry reviews case of girl, 15, who suffered heat exhaustion in car

The Ministry of Children and Family Development is reviewing the case of a15-year-old girl with disabilities who suffered heatexhaustion after she wasleft in the back of a hot car for as long as an hour, police say.

The incident happened Sunday at a parking lot at the Abbotsford Air Show.

Abbotsford Police Const. Ian Macdonald saida passerby noticed the teen who appeared to be suffering from heat exhaustion.

The woman flagged down a nearby officer who was on a bicycle.

The officer was poised to break open the window to rescue the teen when the girl's parents arrived and opened the car. Macdonald said..

He said an ambulance was called andthe teen was treated for dehydration and heat exhaustion.

Window opened just a crack, say police

Investigators say one window was open about fivecentimetres in 27 C heat.

"That was the temperature outside the vehicle," Macdonald said. "You can only imagine the temperature inside the vehicle would have been amplified."

Abbotsford police say they see a spike in similar cases when temperatures soar.

They also see an increase in the number of drownings and incidents involving children falling out of windows of multi-storey buildings.

On Saturday, a toddler was taken to hospital after falling through the window of a three-storey building in Abbotsford.

"We ask that people going into this weekend be super conscious of the fact that if they're near water in hot conditions, in a vehicle or if they're trying to vent their homes, be mindful of those categories," said Macdonald.