CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A local radio station is broadcasting public service announcements to remind parents and guardians of the importance of not leaving children in cars during the summer heat.

Carlos Lopez, owner and CEO of Lopez Broadcasting, began airing the PSAs on Thursday.

He said he was forced to take this step after two children recently died in hot cars. On Aug. 20, a 22-month-old girl died after her mother, Hilda Adame, left her in a car outside Tom Browne Middle School, according to police. Adame was arrested hours later. The following day, a 9-month-old girl died in a hot car parked outside a Beeville home. The girl was being cared for by her grandmother. No charges have been filed in that case.

The public service announcement begins with the sentence “Stop, look and listen.”

A child’s body temperature rises five times faster than an adult’s. It is recommended that adults put their cell phones in the back seat when they are preparing to leave for their destination. When they get there, they look for their phone in the back seat so they can see if their children are sitting there.

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“Every life matters and these children sometimes cannot speak. Sometimes they are babies, so we have to be their voice and we have to take on this responsibility that God has given all of us in the media to raise this awareness so that we can help.”

The PSAs will air on Corpus Christi-based radio station Majic 104.9, as well as Lopez’s radio stations KOMO and KQSA in San Antonio and KHMC in Victoria.

“We hope other media partners in Dallas, Houston, the Valley, Laredo and elsewhere will do the same because we know the heat in Texas is relentless,” Lopez said.

The radio station owner also contacted state Rep. Todd Hunter to ask if he could get the Texas Department of Transportation to post messages on its digital boards to remind parents and guardians not to leave their children in their cars.