On June 25, as Pasadena, California, temperatures rose into the upper 90s, a 24-year-old UPS driver passed away in his delivery truck, according to a recent report.
Stevie, also known as Esteban Chavez Jr., unexpectedly passed out while delivering deliveries.
‘By the time anyone realised it, which was the owner of the house where he delivered the package to, and that was about 20 minutes after my son already collapsed,’ his father, Esteban Chavez Sr., told KTLA 75.
The cause of death has not been disclosed by the coroner, although Chavez’s family believes that he died as a result of high temperatures.
‘Everyone knows, it is pretty hot out there, those trucks are a hot box,’ Chavez Sr. said. ‘They have all these guys running around, delivering packages and trying to meet their quotas and do their jobs.’
Chavez’s family set up a GoFundMe page to raise money for his funeral.
‘Our hearts are tore and this pain is unbearable,’ Suleyma Chavez the page’s organizer, wrote. ‘We will all miss him dearly. He was full of life and gave so much to the world and to others.’
The day before his death, the UPS driver, who had recently turned 24 and had taken time off to recover from a shoulder ailment, went back to work.
‘We are deeply saddened by the loss of our driver Esteban Chavez, and extend our deepest condolences to his family and friends. We are cooperating with the investigating authorities and are respectfully deferring questions about this incident to them,’ UPS said, according to KTLA 75.