‘Sassy’ 3-year-old who died in a hot car in Arizona remembered as mother issues a grave warning to other parents while heat wave spreads across US.

An Arizona family is mourning the loss of their ‘sassy’ three-year-old child who died in horrific circumstances after her father forgot that he left her in the backseat of his car as temperatures went above 98 F degrees.

ANGELA Jones was on the phone with her husband Scott when he suddenly realised he’d left their three-year-old daughter Charlotte in a boiling hot car.

It was September 2019, and Scott had been dropping his two eldest daughters off at school before he returned to his home office for a day of work.

Four hours later Angela called to ask how Charlotte, their youngest, was doing after the couple had decided to keep her out of preschool that week.

But Scott had forgotten Charlotte was also in the car with him that morning.

“All of a sudden I could just hear a panic in his voice,” Angela told Fox News Digital.

“I initially thought she had gotten into the pool or something like that, and then he was like, ‘Oh, my God, I don’t think I ever got her out of the car’.”

After realising his mistake, the distraught dad raced to the driveway to find his daughter baking in his car.

He called 911, but it was too late, Charlotte was already succumbing to the blistering heat.

She was given medical treatment at the scene and then rushed to a nearby hospital where she later died, according to azcentral.

Tragically, little Charlotte isn’t the only child to have met her death in this way.

Angela said Charlotte was the beating heart of their young family.