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Heat, humidity and cars a deadly combination for kids.
Byline: Brian Anderson
DALLAS _ Two have already died in Atlanta. Two more are dead in Florida, and another in Indiana.
Mary Lou O'Toole, a spokeswoman with the National SAFE KIDS Campaign, scrolled through her files June 24, tallying the number of children lost to the stifling heat of a closed vehicle.
"We're actually seeing numbers going up each summer," she said.
The death toll, like the thermometer's mercury, is climbing across the country.
The death June 3 of a 2-year-old boy left inside a van in Lancaster, Texas, brought O'Toole's 2003 fatality count to six. A total of four "close calls" have been reported in Utah, ...
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