Construction workers fight for emergency heat protection as temperatures soar

A pair of weathered boots outside Houston’s City Hall on Friday 14 July honoured Filipe Pascual, a 46-year-old construction worker who collapsed at a job site in Fort Bend County, Texas during the “heat dome.”

Pascual, who according to the medical examiner’s office, was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital Pearland after collapsing during a record-breaking heatwave in which Texas became one of the hottest places on earth, had been pouring concrete at Sienna Parkway and Waters Lake Boulevard in Missouri City and died from hyperthermia.