This story is so heartbreaking! A baby in Florida is now dead after being left in a hot car in Jacksonville. Police tell us that her father was doing work at a house when he left his child inside of the car. The baby was inside of the car for about an hour before the father remembered. He ran to the car, pulled the baby out, performed CPR and called 911! Amber Rollins who is the director of Kids and Car Safety tells us, “This isn’t a failure of love, or a failure of attentiveness to your child. It is something that could happen to anybody.”
According to The Weather Authority, temperatures in the car could have reached 128 degrees after an hour. Jessica Winberry who is the injury prevention coordinator at Wolfson Children’s Hospital says that hot cars are dangerous for children. She goes on to say “Small children heat up three to five times faster than adults.” The last incident where a child died in a hot car in Jacksonville occurred in 2019. Investigators said a 4-month-old girl died after being left inside a car for 5 hours.
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Which Florida City Made The List With Highest Murder Rates In U.S.
There’s lots to love about the Sunshine State, but we’re also notorious for the craziest crimes. One Florida city even ranked in the top 15 for highest murder rates in America. It’s not really a list we love to see Florida on, but we can’t say we’re not surprised with all the insane stuff that happens here.
Our friends at neighboorhoodscout.com ranked the top 30 cities in the country with the highest murder rates per 1,000 residents. They condensed their research by including cities with 25,000 or more people. They collected their data by the number of murders reported to the FBI to have occurred in each city, and the population of each city. The city population data comes straight from the US Bureau of the Census at the time of each analysis. For instance, the 2022 list population uses 2020 population figures. The 2021 list uses 2019 figures, and so forth.
There were 14 new cities making the list this year. “The newcomer on this list with the highest murder rate is Saginaw, MI. The number of murders in Saginaw more than doubled from the previous year.” Thankfully (and surprisingly) only one Florida city was ranked in the research.
Here’s the top 15 cities with the highest murder rate. Click here to see the full list.
