{"id":145480,"date":"2022-08-09T11:02:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T18:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=145480"},"modified":"2022-08-09T11:02:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T18:02:22","slug":"caltrans-worker-killed-near-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=145480","title":{"rendered":"Caltrans\u00a0Worker Killed Near Fresno \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresno, CA&#8230;The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is mourning the death today of Ali Shabazz, 48, a Civil Engineer for the department. Shabazz was killed while on duty when he was involved in a fatal vehicle collision in Fresno County.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ali-Shabazz.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-145481\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ali-Shabazz.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ali-Shabazz.png 675w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ali-Shabazz-300x292.png 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ali-Shabazz-570x554.png 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ali-Shabazz-30x30.png 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shabazz had served\u00a0Caltrans\u00a0for more than 16 years, joining the department in 2006. He is survived by his wife, Nia, and their eight children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tragic death of\u00a0Caltrans\u00a0District 6 veteran Ali Shabazz is a devastating loss to his wife, their eight children, and our entire\u00a0Caltrans\u00a0family,\u201d said\u00a0Caltrans\u00a0Director Tony Tavares. \u201cI extend my heartfelt prayers and deepest sympathy to Ali\u2019s family and all who knew and worked with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just before midnight, Shabazz was traveling to a job site when his vehicle was struck by another vehicle at a rural intersection. He succumbed to his injuries on-scene.<\/p>\n<p>Shabazz is the first\u00a0Caltrans\u00a0District 6 (Central Valley) employee to die on the job since 1999. He is the tenth in the history of District 6 and the 191st\u00a0Caltrans\u00a0worker to lose their life on the job since 1921.<\/p>\n<p>To assist Ali\u2019s family, including his eight children, a memorial fund has been established through our partner at the California Transportation Foundation. Please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/ali-shabazz-memorial-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"2\">Ali Shabazz memorial fund web page<\/a>\u00a0to donate.<\/p>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresno, CA&#8230;The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is mourning the death today of Ali Shabazz, 48, a Civil Engineer for the department. Shabazz was killed while on duty when he was involved in a fatal vehicle collision in Fresno County. Shabazz had served\u00a0Caltrans\u00a0for more than 16 years, joining the department in 2006. He is survived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1599,"featured_media":145481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","category-traffic-fire","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ali-Shabazz.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145482,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145480\/revisions\/145482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}