“Our mission was just to get that baby out as soon as possible,” firefighter Martin Mora told KTVU.

“But all the doors were locked so that’s when we put our tools into action,” said Joshua Scheib, a firefighter and paramedic.

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From KTVU:

Authorities aren’t sure how long the child was left in that car, but they estimated between 5 and 10 minutes. Police credited quick thinking shoppers and the quick action of firefighters with likely saving the boy’s life.

Once they pulled the toddler out of the hot car and removed some of his clothes, emergency responders put him in an ambulance.

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“You know we had the air conditioner going on,” Scheib told KTVU. “We tried everything we can just to bring the patient’s temperature down.”

The boy was taken to a hospital with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening, the San Jose Mercury News reported. His mother told authorities that she left the child in the car while she ran an errand.

“Obviously, whatever the mother explained to the officers there at the scene and to the detective, all that’s going to play into what the DA decides to do with this case,” officer Albert Morales, of the San Jose Police Department, told KTVU.

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Calls to the San Jose police and the local district attorney’s office were not immediately returned Monday morning.

This year, more than 20 children who were trapped in hot cars have died, according to Jan Null, who tracks the incidents.

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