Heat and hot cars can quickly get dangerous

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- Over the past several weeks, rising temperatures have led to tragic deaths. This includes children left inside hot cars in North Carolina and Nebraska, a baby that died of heat on a boat on Lake Havasu on the AZ/CA border, and a police dog left in a hot car overnight.

Jared Friedman, an emergency medicine physician with Avera says that heat-related illnesses can impact people differently, but that children and the elderly can be more easily impacted.

"Once we get into those upper 80s - 90s -- that greatly impacts all people that are outside," said Friedman, who added that some things like medications for diabetes, high blood pressure or mental illness can have an impact on someone's risk for heat-related illnesses.

Friedman sa...