LAS VEGAS -- While the heat holds danger for everyone, children are especially affected. Emergency crews say it would only take a couple of minutes in the extreme heat of a car for a child to suffer brain damage and even die.

As a mother, Jamie Cruz wonders why anyone would leave their kids in a car unattended.

"You wouldn't leave a gallon of milk sitting in your car. Why would you do that to your children who are the most precious thing in your life," she said.

But it happens every summer. Safe Kids Coalition director Jeanne Cosgrove says last year emergency crews responded to dozens of calls where kids were left in a hot car.

"I remember last summer that there were roughly 75 calls made to Las Vegas Fire alone. That's about one a day," she said. "If we have a 98 degree day, within 20 minutes that temperatures inside the car is going to be about 120 degrees. A child cannot sustain that kind of temperature."

LAS VEGAS -- Due to the high temperatures, Clark County has opened its cooling stations for people who need a place to get out of the heat.

Temperatures are expected to exceed 105 degrees over the weekend. The following locations will be open through June 9th:

LAS VEGAS -- A new study ranks Nevada fifth in the nation for gun-related deaths, and it reveals nearly one out of every three households in Nevada now has a gun.

What the study shows is that Nevadans are being shot to death at much higher rate than residents in most other states.

"Handguns are the number one cause of death in our homicides," said Metro Lt. Lew Roberts.

Roberts wasn't too surprised by the results of this latest study. It reveals that Nevada's gun death rate is 16.1 per 100,000 people. That's significantly higher than the national gun death rate of 10.3 per 100,000.

"Handguns,unfortunately, are easily accessible. In our case, the handguns used in homicides here are usually stolen from residences and vehicles," said Roberts.