Baby Girl Rescued From Hot Locked Car in Petah Tikvah

United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Alan Malka on Sunday morning saved the life of an infant girl when he pulled her from a locked, hot car on Aharonovitz Street in Petach Tikvah.

“I was working at my job in the Municipality when I received an emergency alert from United Hatzalah’s Dispatch and Command Center regarding a young child locked in a hot car on Aharonovitz Street right nearby. I drove down Sokolov Street on my ambucycle and was at the scene in less than a minute," Malka reported.

"When I arrived, the father of the young girl was very agitated and told me that his daughter had been locked in the car after he accidentally left the keys inside. I pulled my special equipment that I use to open locked cars, and within 15 seconds I had the door of the car open and picked up the infant girl. I handed her to her father who embraced her warmly. I then performed a quick medical check. Thankfully, all of the girl’s vital signs checked out. She was in good condition.

"Her father couldn’t thank me enough, and I smiled and told him that I was happy to help and that it was all part of the job.

"This is one of the many emergency calls that I have gone to that make all of the training and volunteering worthwhile.

"I’ve been volunteering with United Hatzalah for the past 11 years, and this isn’t the first child that I have rescued from a hot car. One month over the summer I had three instances like this. Each one is special and each is incredibly important as being locked in a hot car can be fatal to a child in a matter of minutes.

"I am a family man. I have been married for more than 20 years and have a bunch of teenagers at home. I no longer have small children, but I know what it means to be a parent and to be having an emergency. Thankful, my wife has always supported me as a volunteer, as have my children. Volunteering as an EMT is one of the joys of my life, especially in situations like these, where I can save a young child from an irreparable damage or even death."