Sarah Oropeza, a clerk at Famous Footwear in Merriam, Kansas, is being hailed as a hero this week after the actions she took to save an overheated child on Saturday.
According to KCTV, Oropeza was ringing up a patron when a fellow employee told her that a child was trapped alone in a car.
The mother of two reacted by running out to the parking lot and seeing a two-year old girl "covered in sweat," as she described it to ABC.
After multiple people failed to rescue the little girl by using a chair and a screwdriver, Oropeza grabbed a tire iron and repeatedly slammed it against the car window.
Police say the outside temperature was 91 with a heat index of 101 that day.
"I was thinking …what if she dies?" Oropeza told ABC. "What if we can’t get her out?"
But Oropeza did eventually succeed in breaking the window and grabbing the toddler, with authorities later arriving on the scene and issuing a ticket for child endangerment to the two adults in charge of the girl.
The incident has received national attention, with the above video viewed on Facebook over 10,000 times. See it for yourself.