- November 16, 2024
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Deputies found a four-year-old boy unconscious in a locked Jeep Cherokee parked in his family’s Woodlands-area driveway the afternoon of Sunday, July 12.
A fire rescue unit arrived and took the boy to Florida Hospital Flagler, where he was placed on a ventilator and then transferred to Wolfson Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville.
The incident started with an emergency call about a missing child. The boy’s 13-year-old sister had been left to watch him while her parents took another sibling to a softball game. She fell asleep next to her brother and slept for about an hour, she told deputies, then awoke to find the home’s front door open and her brother gone. She called 911, and deputies responded at about 2:23 p.m.
Two deputies checked the inside of the house, on the first block of Blakefield Drive, while another checked with neighbors, who had not seen him. Deputies then checked the Jeep, where they saw the boy lying down in the back seat, unconscious, with all of the windows rolled up.
Sheriff’s Office Deputy William Nunziato and Sgt. Michael Van Buren cared for him until rescuers arrived.
Temperatures Sunday afternoon rose into the mid-90s.
