As temperatures climbed into the triple-digits in the Denver area on Wednesday, a dog owner tragically made the decision to leave their pets locked in a vehicle.

According to the Brighton Police Department, officers responded to an animal welfare call around noon in the area of the 100 Block of North Cabbage Street. The public was asked to avoid the area at the time.

A later update indicated that two dogs were found unattended inside of a parked vehicle. One of the dogs was deceased upon the arrival of the officers, with the other dog transported to the Riverdale Animal Shelter for care and evaluation.

A press release on the matter was accompanied by a temperature gauge reading 136.5 degrees Fahrenheit, presumably capturing the temperature inside of the vehicle at the time.

The owner of the dogs has been identified by the police department, but a name was not publicly released.

Obviously, outside temperatures of 100 degrees make it way to hot to leave anything living unattended in a vehicle. That said, the threshold for when things get dangerous is much lower than that. On a 75-degree day, for example, the temperature inside of a car can reach 94 degrees in 10 minutes and 109 degrees in 30 minutes. In another case in which it was 108 degrees outside, the temperature inside of a vehicle was measured at 180 degrees.

Information about what charges the owner of the dogs might face were not included in a press release on the matter.

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