US Postal worker found dead in California after delivering mail in extreme heat - Sensationalist Headlines

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/10/us-postal-worker-found-dead-in-california-after-delivering-mail-in-extreme-heat-family-says.html Peggy Frank, 63, was found dead in her truck on Friday after delivering mail in sweltering heat, her family said.

Climate is only gonna get worse from here on out

We threw a snowball into the Florida senate though, so global warming is a liberal conspiracy regards, james innhofe

“Safety is our top priority for all our employees," A spokeswoman for the U.S. Postal Service told the Los Angeles Daily News in a statement. The Postal Service strives to ensure that they have the tools and training to do so safely.” How vague do they even get with their statement. Climate change is a huge bitch, several weeks aho at my job the second floor has no ventilation at all so its like a sauna up there. Luckily the managers allowed me to go downstairs and handed out cooled water bottles as part of their policy. But assuming to ve working in a van where the burning sun is shining on all day is much worse.

What is it with postal services and saying fuck you when it comes to AC. I work at UPS, at an airport mind you but still, unless you're in a semi trailer cab you're fucked, even inside there's practically no AC and in 100 degree heat with 80% humidity and heavy machinery everywhere blowing even hotter air into your face and a lot of the brown package cars don't have AC either. It's no wonder people are having heatstrokes.

blame regan. there was already a need for AC when they bought the fleet of LLVs and instead they went with a defense contractor who had never built any vehicles before

i'm invovled in the contract for the next generations of mail trucks and trust me, even the absolute worst of the options are better and safer than the LLV

Friend working once in Door to Door Sales almost had this happen to him. 32 degrees without water and unable to get water from the area he was working in because of lead contamination.

They literally do not have the money.

For the rest of the world, that's about 49 degrees. How the fuck does anyone work in that kind of temperature?

LLvs always looked like a deathtrap.

They are antiques in every sense of the word. So much so that they would qualify for historic car plates. The one that comes to our workplace has a really nasty sounding engine and sounds like it could blow up at any given second.

A shit ton of water and regular breaks. Don't know how this works in the context of mail delivery though. I've worked for 8+ hours outside in 100+ degrees but never even close to 120, that is actually insane.

Well they are called Long Life Vehicles. They seem to have been a great success.

No doubt. It is impressive to see these vehicles still on the road after being used nearly every day for decades. But they are being pushed well past their original life span. Vehicle design, even on fleet vehicles, has come a long way in 30 years. AC being a standard feature is one of them.

Adding AC in the vehicles would be great, but sadly its not going to benefit every postal worker. Postal workers in my area walk from house to house and I imagine a lot of them do in other areas as well. My postal dude always plays it off as not that bad but I know hes roasting.😞

or you could end up like an high school athlete in my area and drink too much water and die due to his blood vessels bursting from the ocean in his system.

people who spend their entire lives in 100+ f heat are metabolically adapted to it.

Last summer I worked in 120+ degree heat in and out of boiler houses at a power plant. I normally was only in it for a couple hours at most, but a lot of the guys were working up there for full shifts and we rarely had any heat exhaustion cases. It was actually easier to combat the heat by wearing more layers. I normally had a dry-fit undershirt, regular shirt, and then my safety greens on top of that. Despite being at the top floor of an active boiler with the walls glowing red, I was able to work for several hours without too much strain. By the end of the summer I actually wasn't very bothered by the heat at all. It's not hard to believe that the body can adapt to temperature extremes, but I'd wager there isn't much real science to back that up.

But, I assume you had access to water....

Yeah, you are also completely dismissing the fact this woman was 63 years old....are you 63 years old? I can do a lot of shit myself, that doesn't mean others are able to do the same things I can. Heat, improper hydration, and health conditions are all factors into heat stroke.

I was more replying to Cigarettes on the topic of the body adjusting to temperature, sorry. Wasn't trying to imply anything about this specific incident.

probably but there is a science behind acclimation. as someone who lives in a state that ranges from 100 to -20, 65f will feel either like a blizzard or the surface of the sun depending on which end of the year it is

Acclimatization is a real thing. The first few days of summer here are absolutely brutal because in my state, the heat/humidity goes from 65/40 to 85/80 in literally a span of a week when the seasons shift. I literally felt like i was dying the first week, but after 2-4 weeks your body gets used to it. The human body, as with any biological matter, adapts to become more efficient with what its given. Humans when in a cold climate will have more salt in their sweat (since its no longer needed for electrolytes/hydration), more urine (less need of fluid to cool), and your blood vessels are much more constricted (to prevent heat loss due to less surface area reaching the top of the skin). Hotter climate have less salt (critical in hydration of tissue when sweating), less urine (to keep fluids in the body), and your blood vessels dilate (to allow more surface area to evaporate heat from the skin). A good idea is how mountain climbers have to take breaks for their body to become accustomed to the thinning of atmosphere at higher altitudes. This takes weeks to become fully acclimatized (climate wise, not so much altitude), but its not a pseudo science, just we don't know much outside the effects.

My bad, friend.