A Florida police officer has reunited with the little girl he saved from her mother’s hot car.
Police responding to a report of a missing girl on June 17 found the girl sitting in her mother’s car alone. She had reportedly been left there for more than 12 hours in 80-degree heat, police say.
Intense footage from Seminole County Deputy Bill Dunn’s dashboard camera shows him sprinting to the car with a young girl in his arms.
Dunn says that when he opened the car door 110-degree steam poured out of the vehicle.
At this time he saw no signs of life in the toddler.
“I didn’t feel a pulse,” Dunn said.
The deputy rushed her into his cruiser, turned on the air conditioning and started heading towards the nearest hospital.
“Once the cold air hit her that’s when I started noticing her eyes kind of fluttering.”
Three days later the girl was released from the hospital and reunited with her hero.
Dunn said, “Sometimes we are able to have a moment like this that makes it all worthwhile.”
Police say the girl’s mother is now being charged with neglect.
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