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A brief moment of inattention, a mishap – and the car was already locked: A mother accidentally locked her toddler in a car on Monday afternoon in Asten (Linz-Land district) – in sweltering heat. The little boy was trapped in the vehicle parked in a mall parking lot in more than 30 degrees. The temperatures inside the car climbed by the minute in the blazing sun, and the mother immediately sounded the alarm.
Task forces from the Asten fire brigade and the ÖAMTC moved in. While the firefighters were preparing an emergency opening, the technicians from the motorists’ club managed to unlock the locking mechanism and free the child. It must have been locked in the car for between ten and twenty minutes.
Emergency services cooled boys
The little boy was cared for by firefighters until the rescue team arrived. “We cooled the little one with cooling bags in a triangular cloth,” says Michael Stöckl, head of operations from the Asten fire brigade. The young patient was then examined by paramedics from the Red Cross in St. Georgen an der Gusen. Apparently, he should have survived the incident without serious injuries.
For the comrades of the Asten fire brigade, it was not the only such operation in recent times: the fire brigade was called to the parking lot of the operations center just over a week and a half ago because two small children were locked in a car. They, too, had been trapped by an accident and were freed in time.
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Firefighters fetched spare keys
The fire brigade deployed to a similar operation on Monday in Marchtrenk (Wels-Land district): A small child was trapped in a BMW that was parked in front of a residential building. The entire bunch of keys, including the apartment key, was on the front passenger seat. While the little occupant was distracted with the help of the fire brigade teddy “Konrad”, firefighters climbed into the family’s apartment through a window using a turntable ladder and got the second key for the car. The toddler could be saved unharmed, the Marchtrenk fire brigade informed via Facebook.
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