This is the incredible moment when a desperate father smashes his car windshield to save his baby from a sweltering hot car as a ‘heat dome’ settles over him 300 million Americans.
The disturbing video was taken Wednesday by a social media user watching from her car in a parking lot in Arlington, Texas.
The footage began with a man using a crowbar to smash the windshield of a vehicle parked in the 100-degree heat. The man was apparently the child’s father, who accidentally locked the car keys inside with the baby.
A second man came by to hammer the window some more before finally breaking a hole big enough for people to lift the baby out of the hot car and to safety.
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An unseen woman climbed through the broken glass and handed the baby to one of the men outside the car, the videographer said.
The heat index for Wednesday in Arlington was over 100 degrees as many more Americans will experience similar heat over the next week.
In Texas, Sunday marked the end of San Antonio’s all-time record streak of days in three-digit agency workers, with the high reaching just 99, according to the San Antonio Express News. The drop was due to rainy weather in the area.
‘The storms. when they started to fall, they produced wind and cooler air,” National Weather Service meteorologist Emily Heller said.
But the pause is expected to last just a day, as 100-degree days are forecast for the area for the week ahead.
While baking parts of the country, the heat dome has also helped generate heavy rainfall in the northeast, a pattern expected to continue for days, if not weeks, according to the National Weather Service.
Warnings take effect for about 300 million Americans as the heat wave hits the Northern Plains and Midwest in the coming days, according to the weather channel.
The National Weather Service has extreme heat warnings and heat advisories for much of the western and southern United States.
It appears that only parts of Washington and Oregon in the lower 48 states will be spared above-average agency workers.
The National Weather Service has extreme heat warnings and heat advisories for much of the western and southern United States
Warnings take effect for about 300 million Americans as heat wave hits Northern Plains and Midwest in coming days
With much of the heat in the Southwest, parts of the Midwest further north are due to see temperatures in the high 90s to near 100s.
Places like Minnesota, Kansas and North Dakota could see scorching heat, with the Northeast possibly next later in the week.
The heat will still be stubborn in the Southwest as Phoenix hits its record 110-plus degree temperatures for the 24th consecutive day with no end in sight.
“The heat is taking a big toll,” said Frank LoVecchio, an emergency room physician at Valleywise Health Medical Center in Phoenix, according to CNN. “The hospital hasn’t been this busy with overflow since a few spikes in the COVID pandemic.”
Some Phoenix residents accused city leaders of city practices that appear to violate heat avoidance guidelines. The city removed shady bus stops in mid-summer and cited homeowners for breaking their laws, the council said Arizona Republic.
“It is quite counterproductive to tell people to be aware of heat safety and also threaten them with fines for not doing yard work,” one resident wrote on Twitter.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center has said much of the country can expect above-average temperatures at least through the end of July.
The National Weather Service recommends limiting outdoor activities in the areas where it issues heat warnings.
Nearly a quarter of the US population fell under extreme heat advisories last week, in part due to a persistent heat dome parked over western states
While baking parts of the country, the heat dome has also helped generate heavy rainfall in the northeast, a pattern expected to continue for days if not weeks
The heat warnings spread from the Pacific Northwest, through California and then across the South
Heat waves aren’t as visually dramatic as other natural disasters, but experts say they are deadlier. A heat wave in parts of the South and Midwest killed more than a dozen people last month.
Records are being broken all over the southern US, from California to Florida. But it’s much more than that. It’s global, with devastating heat hitting Europe along with dramatic flooding in the northeastern US, India, Japan and China.
According to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, the world has been in uncharted territory for almost the entire month of July.
June was also the warmest June ever measured, according to various weather agencies. Scientists say there’s a good chance 2023 will go down in history as the warmest year on record, with records dating back to the mid-1800s.