QUEENS — A dog left in a scorching hot car for more than an hour was saved by Forest Hills police officers Sunday, the NYPD said.
The pooch was left in the vehicle on the corner of Yellowstone and Queens boulevards as temperatures reached the high 80s, officials said.
At about 3:45 p.m. officers Timothy Geary and Joseph Regan of the 112th Precinct, who were patrolling the area, responded to a call from a passerby who spotted the dog in the car.
The officers' supervisor Sgt. Christopher Bivona, who also arrived on the scene, was able to unlock the car through a door window, which was left slightly open, police said.
Once the dog was freed, the officers gave it water, authorities said.
The pup’s owner, a 39-year-old woman who does not live in the area, returned shortly after. She was able to keep her dog but was issued a summons for leaving an animal confined in a vehicle in extreme temperature, police said.