Two months after a 5-year-old Mansfield boy died of heat stroke when he was left in a hot car, Richland County is offering free car seat sensors to prevent additional deaths.

The sensors will send an alert to remind parents after they get out of their car to check whether they left a pet or child behind. If they don’t respond, emergency contacts are called.

The campaign is in response to the death of Kyrie Brown, who died after being accidentally left in his mothers’ car, Richland Public Health Commissioner Julie Chaya said.

"After [that], I thought to myself, 'There's no way we can just keep carrying on in life with putting out a Facebook post or just a basic prayer or a remembrance,'" she told Ideastream Public Media. "We had to do something more."

According to noheatstroke.org, a re

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