ATLANTA – Bodycam footage released this week showed a Georgia man being arrested on the Fourth of July after authorities said he left a baby girl and toddler boy locked in a hot car in Atlanta.
The incident occurred in the parking lot of the Cumberland Mall in northern Atlanta, where the temperatures reached the upper 80s and lower 90s, according to the National Weather Service.
According to authorities, a man and woman in the parking lot heard children crying and saw that a little boy and baby girl were strapped to their seats inside the locked car. They then called for help.
In the video, deputies can be seen smashing the window of the driver’s side door and unlocking the vehicle to free the children.
A deputy smashed a window in to free the children from the car. The baby girl can be seen in the backseat in this shot.
(Cobb County Police Department / FOX Weather)
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“It’s okay, baby, it’s okay – oh, you’re hot,” one deputy said in the video, as he lifts the little boy out of the car. Another deputy then took the baby girl out from the other side of the vehicle.
The baby girl and toddler boy in the backseat of the car.
(Cobb County Police Department / FOX Weather)
First responders could be seen in the video talking with mall security. They found out the man with the children had entered the mall at around 12:24 p.m. Officials said the deputies, after receiving the 911 call, arrived at 1:03 p.m.
According to the Cobb County Police Department, the internal temperature of the vehicle reached 117 degrees during the nearly 40 minutes the children were left inside.
Deputies holding the children after taking them out of the hot car.
(Cobb County Police Department / FOX Weather)
The footage ended by showing the arrest of a man before he is placed inside a police cruiser.
