Ricardos family members say this is a very difficult time for them. They did not want to go on camera today, but told me he was a a hardworking man who loved his family including his three sons more than anything else. He was working at this contruction zone yesterday when the scaffold he was working on collapsed. Crews are back to work in this construction site at tivoli village a day after a deadly scaffold collapse. Three workers were on the scaffold when it fell two to safety, but one person was killed. Today the clark county coroner said the victim was 30yearold ricardo bautista. Family members told fox5 theyre still trying to process what happened. They did not want to go on camera, but say theyll remember bautista as a great person, a hard worker and a loving father. Signs around the Construction Zone say the Building Permit is to a Company Called levels cm. Contracter for other tivoli village projects. We looked that company up in oshas records and didnt find any previous viola
And im maria silva. Welcome to fox5 news this morning. First Cassandra Jones joins us with a quick look at the fox 5 weather 247 forecast. More rain fell on the Las Vegas Valley overnight with the west side getting anywhere between 0. 12 to 0. 67. At Mccarran International 0. 03 fell. Drier and more stable conditions moves in for the next few days. Daytime temperatures will be average with a slight cooling starting on the weekend as a trough slides south along the coast. The uv index for wednesday is 9 or very high. Devastated after a losing their loving husband and father, in a construction accident. Ricardo bautista was working on at tivoli village suddenly collapsed. His wife says he wasnt even supposed to be working that day. Bautista had two jobs. His family says he only worked the construction job on his days off and for extra cash. His wife jacquelyn says she tried to tell her husband to stay home but he decided to work instead he wasnt supposed to go to work , so i told him jus
Thats right john. Cyndi. Earlier today i spoke with a local bee keeper. Who says ten bee stings per pound is all it takes for the body to be overwhelmed. Meaning if a 180 pound man were to be stung 18 hundred to 2 thousand times the body would start to shutdown. Now that seems like a lot. But im told a couple thousnd bees is just tenpercent of an average africanized bee hive. Which is the type of bee hive pacheco was attempting to remove. Im also told close to 100 percent of bees in the valley are africanized. But only 25percent are aggressive. Las vegas fire and rescue say the amount of calls they receive have gone down more and more over the years. The bees you have to look out for are the ones coming out of walls. Sprinkler heads. And cracks in buildings. People think oh, well just let them go, well youre really wishing death on your neighborhood because as soon as they take flight, the first thing that has musk perfume or different perfumes, loud noise, bees are going to attack it.