A 4-year-old Arizona girl was pronounced dead after she was found unresponsive on Sunday in a hot car in Buckeye, Arizona, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Family members told authorities they had returned from a park at about 2 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, the Buckeye Police Department said in a statement<\/a> posted on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The family began searching for the girl about two hours later and found her in the vehicle, the statement said. Police said they were contacted at about 5 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Officers arrived and immediately began chest compressions on the 4-year-old girl and attempted to use an AED before medics arrived to transport the child to the hospital where she was pronounced deceased,” police said.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The vehicle was parked in front of a home near North 212th Drive and West Granada Road, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Temperatures at nearby Buckeye Municipal Airport peaked at about 101 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The police said the investigation is in its early stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n