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May 14, 2008: Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez, 17, collapses after laboring 9+ hours w/o accessible shade or water at wine grape vineyard near Stockton. The farm labor contractor never calls 911 & tells Maria Isabel’s fiancé to lie about the events. She dies 2 days later.

Her death and the deaths of other farm workers from extreme heat leads the United Farm Workers to help strengthen California’s pioneering rules to prevent heat deaths and illnesses and beef up enforcement. #WeFeedYou #CALOR