On Wednesday morning, fire crews responded to a 911 call about a dog in a parked car that was becoming "increasingly hot," Sacramento's KCRA.com reports. Using special equipment, the firefighters were able to detect the temperature inside the car, which had already reached 84 degrees and was rising.
"There was no water inside the car for the dog, and fire personnel knew the car's temperatures would quickly rise to 90 degrees," KCRA adds. Ninety degrees is the threshold above which they're permitted to forcibly enter a vehicle to rescue an animal.
Not long after, additional temperature readings confirmed the car was getting hotter. One firefighter's imaging run recorded 91 degrees, and later, an animal control officer's imaging gun registered 95 degrees inside the car, according to the Sacramento Bee.
That's when the fire crews leapt into action, opening a car door with a slim device to get the dog out and take it to a shelter.
“The whole call took less than 10 minutes,” Sacramento Fire Department spokesman Chris Harvey told the Bee. “This morning was breezy and cool. Perhaps some folks have been lulled into a false sense of security. It very quickly gets hot inside a car, regardless of how warm it is outside.”
(The Weather Channel - July 17, 2015)
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