( CNN ) -- The death of a 10-month-old girl left in a hot car in Wichita , Kansas -- the latest in a string of hot-car child deaths in the United States -- triggered the quick arrest of the girl 's foster father and on Friday prompted state officials to launch home inspections of adoptive and foster families . The foster father told police he picked up the child from a babysitter about 4 p.m. Thursday , drove home and forgot the child was in the back seat , according to Lt. Todd Ojile of the Wichita Police Department . Investigators say the girl was locked in the car with the windows up for some two-and-a-half hours . Temperatures in the Wichita area reached the low 90s on Thursday . The foster father was in the process of adopting the girl with his partner , according to police . `` Both were extremely upset , '' Ojile said . Ojile says the couple 's other children have been removed from the home as the investigation continues . The couple are the adoptive parents of two children and are foster parents to four others with ages ranging from 3 to 18 years old , he said . On Friday , Kansas Department for Children and Families Secretary Phyllis Gilmore ordered immediate home inspections for all adoptive and foster families associated with the agency that approved the couple for foster care . The 29-year-old foster father , whose name was not released by police , was booked on an aggravated endangerment charge but has not been formally charged . Ojile said the district attorney could file charges as early as next week . So far in 2014 , according to statistics compiled by the Department of Geosciences at San Francisco State University , there have been at least 18 heatstroke deaths of children left in vehicles . In one highly publicized case , a Georgia father remains in jail awaiting trial on murder and child cruelty charges in the death of his toddler son , who was left in the father 's SUV for seven hours . Should the government step in to prevent hot car deaths ? After leaving a child in a car , 'that pain ... never goes away ' Hostin : I , too , left my child in a hot car .
A foster father in Kansas is devastated after a child in his care dies in a hot car . The 10-month - old boy was in the car with the windows up more than two hours . A Kansas agency launches inspections of foster and adoptive homes in the wake of the death .