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Responders smash car window to ‘rescue’ infant manikin

Calif. emergency personnel, called out for an infant in a hot car, quickly broke into a car before realizing the infant was a lifelike doll

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OAKLAND, Calif. — Oakland emergency personnel quickly smashed a car’s window to rescue an infant trapped in a hot parked car Monday.

It was only after getting inside the car that they realized the infant was actually a lifelike doll in a car seat, reported KGO.

“Although this incident did not involve a baby or small child, it was unknown at the time,” Officer Johnna Watson, Oakland Police Department told ABC News.

The infant manikin was in a car seat, but it is not clear why it was in the car and police did not say if they have talked with the car’s owner.

“Fortunately, it was not a baby or small child,” Watson said.