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sl8

(14,037 posts) Sun Jul 3, 2022, 11:50 AM Jul 2022

UPS driver, 24, collapses and dies while delivering packages in SoCal heat

https://abc7.com/heat-exhaustion-ups-driver-pasadena-esteban-chavez/12010038/

UPS driver, 24, collapses and dies while delivering packages in SoCal heat

By ABC7.com staff
Friday, July 1, 2022 9:49PM

A Southern California family is mourning their son, a UPS driver, who died just a day after his 24th birthday possibly due to heat stroke.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A Southern California family is in mourning after their son, a UPS driver, died just a day after his 24th birthday.

Esteban Chavez Jr. of Downey was delivering packages in the Pasadena area last Saturday when he collapsed. The family believes he may have died from heat stroke.

Records show Pasadena hit temperatures in the upper 90s on that day, June 25.

According to the family, Esteban apparently passed out in his truck in the early afternoon, and there was at least a 20-minute gap before someone noticed and called for help.

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UPS driver, 24, collapses and dies while delivering packages in SoCal heat (Original Post) sl8 Jul 2022 OP

... SheltieLover Jul 2022 #1

... RKP5637 Jul 2022 #2

Curious- I know the trucks are more or less open , but- packman Jul 2022 #3

The panel vans aren't AC'ed. Also, the telephone company trucks you see on the road aren't AC'ed SWBTATTReg Jul 2022 #4

Awful nt XanaDUer2 Jul 2022 #5

Only 24 BidenRocks Jul 2022 #6

Shocking loss wendyb-NC Jul 2022 #7

SheltieLover

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Sun Jul 3, 2022, 11:52 AM

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RKP5637

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Sun Jul 3, 2022, 12:07 PM

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packman

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3. Curious- I know the trucks are more or less open , but-

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Sun Jul 3, 2022, 12:07 PM

Jul 2022

Are they air-conditioned? Seems I read an article some time back that drivers were pushing for AC on their trucks, but company was stonewalling.

SWBTATTReg

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4. The panel vans aren't AC'ed. Also, the telephone company trucks you see on the road aren't AC'ed

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Sun Jul 3, 2022, 01:14 PM

Jul 2022

either (I worked for the telephone company years ago). It took a long long time for me to get used to the AC (in KS) and I hated it. I was so happy to get to the depot and return my company van, and get into my AC'ed car, I just about melted (and in KS, there isn't much to pull over and jump into a place, to get a short cooling break (some spots in KS)).