{"id":10139,"date":"2015-06-23T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T19:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=10139"},"modified":"2017-08-28T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T22:00:00","slug":"tennessee-speaker-beth-harwell-works-to-raise-awareness-about-hot-car-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2015\/06\/23\/tennessee-speaker-beth-harwell-works-to-raise-awareness-about-hot-car-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Speaker Beth Harwell works to raise awareness about Hot Car Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"StateNashville, TN<\/strong> – Tennessee’s Speaker of the House Beth Harwell (R-Nashville) is working this summer to raise awareness about how to prevent the deaths of children trapped in hot cars. A recent report concluded Tennessee is in the top 10 states for death of children due to hot vehicles, claiming 23 deaths from 1998-2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs summer temperatures are soaring into the 90s, it is critically important that we raise awareness about this issue. Across the country, as of the middle of June, there have been five child vehicular heat stroke deaths this year,\u201d said Speaker Harwell. \u201cWe need to get the message to all Tennesseans that it\u2019s dangerous to leave your child unattended in your vehicle, even for a minute.\u201d<\/p>\n

[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DXFTV22X5ec[\/youtube]<\/a>Speaker Harwell also praised the efforts of Representative David Hawk (R-Greeneville), who last year passed legislation that protected from the cost of damages those who forced their way into a hot car to save a child.<\/p>\n

The law requires Good Samaritans to first call 911, and check for locked doors. After doing so, they can break into the car to rescue a child.<\/p>\n

Representative Hawk passed a similar law in the Tennessee General Assembly this year that applies to animals in distress in hot vehicles.<\/p>\n

Twenty states have laws that address leaving a child unattended in a vehicle, including Tennessee. A child\u2019s body heats up three to five times faster than an adult\u2019s, meaning heatstroke is more of a threat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe danger for children left in hot cars is an important issue for parents to be thinking about this summer,\u201d said Jude White, Executive Director of the Governor\u2019s Children\u2019s Cabinet. \u201cParents can visit www.kidcentraltn.com<\/a> to learn more about protecting their child from heatstroke and other important summer topics.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more state resources and information on children\u2019s health, education, development, and support, visit www.kidcentraltn.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nashville, TN – Tennessee’s Speaker of the House Beth Harwell (R-Nashville) is working this summer to raise awareness about how to prevent the deaths of children trapped in hot cars. A recent report concluded Tennessee is in the top 10 states for death of children due to hot vehicles, claiming 23 deaths from 1998-2014. \u201cAs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[6867,5808,6832,1416,10379,8280,9488,945,1679,10380,284,261,233,10378,6419],"class_list":["post-10139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-animals","tag-beth-harwell","tag-call-911","tag-children","tag-david-hawk","tag-governors-childrens-cabinet","tag-greeneville-tn","tag-heat-stroke","tag-hot-cars","tag-judy-white","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-general-assembly","tag-tennessee-speaker-of-the-house","tag-tennessee-state-representative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12942,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139\/revisions\/12942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}