North Texas postal worker's death prompts calls for extreme heat protections

Funeral services were held on Thursday for the postal worker who died whole on his route in Little Elm on an extremely hot day.And now there’s a push to change policies to protect employees who work in extreme temperatures.Little Elm Postal Worker DeathFamily, friends, and co-workers gathered on Thursday afternoon to pay their final respects to Umeshkumar Thakkar of Aubrey. The 58-year-old postal worker died on Monday after collapsing while delivering mail in a Little Elm neighborhood.Video from a camera at the corner of Thornhill Lane and Graystone Drive shows Thakkar's USPS truck parked with its hazard lights on around 12:20 p.m. Around 2 p.m., someone called 911 to report that he had passed out in his truck and was unresponsive.Officials administered CPR, but Thakkar was pronounced dead.Thakkar was represented by the National Rural Letter Carrier’s Association. In a letter to FOX 4, the union said it is heartbroken over his passing.The United States Postal Service has not said wheth