It is a heartbreaking story of a tragedy beyond comprehension.
Luna and Phoenix Rodriguez, boy and girl twins, just recently celebrated their first birthday. On Friday their father drove to work at the Bronx VA Hospital with his babies in back of the car, intending to drop them off for child care. Somehow he forgot, parked in his usual spot with the infants inside the vehicle, and left the babies until he returned eight hours later.
He spotted them foaming at the mouth, no longer breathing.
For a child left in a car unattended, heatstroke kills – and very rapidly. Temperatures inside can reach as high as 130 degrees, even when external temperatures are in the 70s or 80s, as direct sunlight heats objects inside the car.
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