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Leaving a child alone in a car can quickly lead to heat stroke and death.

According to the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH), over the last two decades, 744 children have died in the United States from being left unattended in hot cars.

More than 70 percent of heat stroke deaths occur in children younger than age 2 and more than half of those occur because a caregiver forgot the chi…

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