Getting out of the car? Take your kids with you.

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It's the hottest part of the summer, and the living isn't easy for infants and toddlers put at risk by parents, babysitters, and other caretakers who ignore the hazards of summer heat, warns Susan Scott, an emergency room pediatrician at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

While trying to save children ravaged by heat after being left alone inside vehicles, she has grown increasingly frustrated with people who don't learn from past tragedies. "Never leave them in a car. Not even for a minute with the windows `cracked,' "she...