Heartbreaking: Painful” Heat Announced The Death Of Mega-Star Today” With His Family In Plane Crash…..
HOMESTEAD – The Farmworker Association of Florida says that 29-year-old Efrain Lopez Garcia is the first Homestead farmworker dead victim of the extreme heat this year and the second one in the state of Florida. “It is happening, we are scared because more people are saying they are fainting and feeling the symptoms (of heat stroke),” said Yvette Cruz, Communication Coordinator of the Farmworker Association of Florida. According to Jeremia Lopez, that is exactly what seem to have happened to his brother while working at a farm in Homestead on July 6th.
“My brother wasn’t feeling well, he was weak,” told CBS News Miami Lopez who also said the victim did not stop working until his lunch break. “My cousin pulled him to a rest area, he then stepped away to get my brother water and when he came back Efrain wasn’t there…. they found him a few feet away dead.”
When some of these workers start feeling disoriented, they start walking by themselves and they get lost,” said Cruz referring to what seemingly happened to the victim. Activists say those who are diabetic, have high blood pressure and work outdoors have a higher likelihood of a heat stroke, the question many people ask: why aren’t these farmworkers say something?