Fayetteville police crime scene investigator John Brooks takes photographs Monday of a car in a Harps parking lot where a 1-month old child was left for 37 minutes with temperatures near 100 degrees. ( J.T. Wampler

 A 1-month-old infant was hospitalized at Washington Regional Medical Center Monday after being removed from a car in a sun-baked grocery store parking lot in Fayetteville, police said.

After shopping at the Harps at 1247 N. Colorado Dr., the mother returned to her Ford Thurderbird at 1:30 p.m. and discovered the child in the car, Fayetteville Police Department Sgt. Craig Stout said.

The mother returned to the store with the infant, Stout said. Store employees and an off-duty firefighter shopping in the store assisted with the child until an ambulance could transport the infant to the hospital, officials said.

Temperatures by mid-afternoon had reached 94 degrees, officials said. The child was in the car for 37 minutes, the store manager said.

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