VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – Employees at a car rental lot at Daytona Beach International Airport discovered a toddler who was left in the back seat of a returned vehicle for about 45 minutes Monday evening. The child was scared and hot, but thankfully in good health when checked by paramedics.<\/p>\n
Deputies assigned to the airport responded to the Hertz rental lot around 6 p.m. Monday after a Hertz employee reported the toddler was found in a locked vehicle in the car return lot. Deputies arrived to find the employee carrying the child, whose face was warm and streaked with dried tears, but was breathing normally.<\/p>\n
The vehicle had been returned at 5:13 p.m., and deputies and airport staff initially were unable to make contact with the driver. Then a call came in from the child\u2019s mother, who had just learned her father had left her daughter in the rental car \u2013 not at his home, as he\u2019d told her. The mother was on her way to the airport immediately to be reunited with her child, who is just under the age of 2.<\/p>\n