Renee Garrison remembers her late fiance, Ronald "Ronnie" Silver II, who died August 2nd of hyperthermia. Silver was a sanitation worker for Baltimore City when he became sick from heat sickness on the job. Photo by Emily Hofstaedter, WYPR.
Renee Garrison remembers her late fiance, Ronald "Ronnie" Silver II, who died August 2nd of hyperthermia. Silver was a sanitation worker for Baltimore City when he became sick from heat sickness on the job. Photo by Emily Hofstaedter, WYPR.

Ronald Silver II would wake up early every morning to provide for his family before his family was fully awake to go out and complete his route as a Baltimore City sanitation worker. When he came home, he stayed busy; whether that was attending his kids’ activities or re-organizing his mother’s home.

That’s how his family remembered him in a press conference held two weeks after his death.

On August 2nd, Silver, 36, died of heat sickness after working his trash collection route when Baltimore City was under a Code Red heat index. His death, which his family has called “entirely preventable”, is currently under investigation by the Maryland Occupational Safety and Health and the Baltimore Police Department.

Read more (and listen) at WYPR.