Police were called to the carpark of the Gold Coast 's Wet'n'Wild amusement park at around 2pm on Wednesday - later learning the dogs had been stuck in the scorching hot car since that morning.

EARLIER: All but one of the Gold Coast’s major theme parks will be closed on Tuesday as wild weather batters the city.

Todays it’s known worldwide as Wet’n’Wild but in 1984 it went by a different name. The Cades County Water Park was announced in 1983 and construction began in the middle of that year.