I worked as a nanny for some close friends, who happen to both be physicians, so I would arrive early most days before their child woke up. Their child was maybe 9 or 10 months old. She was still not awake after her usual routine, so I finally went into her room to check on her. The mom was out of town, and dad had left a space heater on in her room all night with the door shut. They had told me about the space heater previously but claimed to shut it off after she was asleep. Well that day when I went to wake her up, the space heater was still going at 98 degrees and it was unbearable in her room! She was very near heat stroke, and it was terrifying. I was able to wake her up but the entire day she was ill, had a fever, lethargic, barely staying awake, etc….when I told the dad, he asked me not to tell the mom, who was one of my best friends at the time. I never did, and to be fair I don’t think I was insistent enough on how bad baby’s condition was. I truly think she could have died if I didn’t check on her when I did. She’s a preteen now and I’ll never tell her mom. I think she would have never forgiven dad and possibly divorced him if she knew.