As Angelenos sweat through an extreme heat wave, workers are doing whatever they can to cope, from drinking two gallons of water to wearing ice packs and a fan.
designs, installs and tends gardens for restaurants and corporations, as well as residential projects.
A construction worker with 30 years of experience, he said he has never worked in such an oppressive heat wave. It’s hard enough lifting 50-pound panels of sheet rock while wearing a 6-pound tool belt, but when the temperatures reach triple digits, Rubio said he longs for winter.The job site uniform offers no mercy during heat waves: Everyone wears a hard hat, a neon-orange safety vest on top of a long-sleeve shirt, long pants and heavy work boots, preferably with steel-toe protection.
The blue and black reflective vest Rojas, 28, wears marks him as a delivery driver for Amazon. He says he has more than 200 packages stacked in a gray Amazon-branded van, precariously parked on the narrow road some 30 yards behind him. Rojas said he recently has been making sure to pack at least 15 bottles of water. It’s normal for him to finish each of the 16-ounce bottles by the end of the day. Sometimes, he has to do a grocery run to buy more mid-shift."I tend to go slow. Because even though I have water, sometimes you just are overworking your body,” he said.It was around noon and 103 degrees when Saalika Khan nearly passed out.
"He was like, 'You gotta keep drinking tons and tons of water,' so I was downing several bottles of water periodically." Khan said she’s been thinking about the effects of climate change a lot. Khan was born in Karachi, Pakistan, which has been ravaged in recent weeks bythat has killed more than 1,000 people and displaced millions. She has some extended family in Pakistan, but they don’t live in the hardest-hit areas.
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