Brandon tow truck driver smashes window to save baby from hot car
Car’s locks were malfunctioning while baby was inside vehicle, driver says
Brandon tow truck driver Jeff Hogg saved a baby from a hot car on Wednesday by smashing the vehicle's windows.
Hogg got a "lockout call" Wednesday afternoon and was told a baby was locked inside the vehicle. Temperatures were at 35 C.
When he arrived, the baby had already been in the locked car for a few minutes.
"I pressed the unlock button and as soon as I reached for the door handle it automatically locked again. I did that three times," said Hogg. "The baby started to doze off from the heat exhaustion and I smashed the window out of the passenger side so I could get in. I crawled in through the passenger window and retrieved the baby and handed him to his mother."
He said the mom and baby were then taken to hospital in an ambulance.
"He was very, very red and very hot," said Hogg. "Any time that a baby or any infant is locked in a vehicle, I know the temperature goes up very quick. I have two kids of my own so I wasn't taking any chances."
Hogg believes the electronic door locks were malfunctioning, and that's why the woman was locked out of her car but he can't be sure.
He didn't have time to get her name, and he doesn't know the family, he said.