{"id":14537,"date":"2024-01-02T14:47:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T14:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=14537"},"modified":"2024-01-02T14:47:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T14:47:17","slug":"warning-to-never-leave-pets-or-kids-locked-in-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/warning-to-never-leave-pets-or-kids-locked-in-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning to never leave pets or kids locked in vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the El Ni\u00f1o weather pattern bringing a hotter and drier summer to New Zealand, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.co.nz\/about\/the-aa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the AA<\/a> is reminding Kiwis to never leave pets or children locked in a parked car.<\/p>\n<p>Across January to October this year, the AA said it had responded to 800 emergency callouts for children or pets locked in vehicles, more than 200 in Auckland alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople underestimate how deadly the sun can be, even in summers without El Ni\u00f1o,\u201d said AA Chief Mobility Officer Jonathan Sergel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople may try to mitigate the effects of the heat by cracking open their windows, parking their car in the shade, or think if their car isn\u2019t black then it won\u2019t get as hot. On a summer\u2019s day, none of these techniques are going to make your car any safer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTemperatures in cars can double that of outside and heat stroke will set in very quickly for any passengers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the El Ni\u00f1o weather pattern bringing a hotter and drier summer to New Zealand, the AA is reminding Kiwis to never leave pets or children locked in a parked car. Across January to October this year, the AA said it had responded to 800 emergency callouts for children or pets locked in vehicles, more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":14538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-safety-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}