BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- While one farm worker collapsed Thursday from a possible heat-related illness, the United Farm Workers said they want better care for farm workers after three heat-related California farm worker deaths over the past two months.

On Thursday a farm worker collapsed from the heat while working at Old River Road and Highway 166 near Bakersfield. According to the foreman, the man was not feeling well Thursday morning but showed up for work anyway. That man later began complaining of lower back pain, possibly in the kidney area. An ambulance was called to the scene.

Emergency medical crews were unable to bring the man's body temperature down and they said he wasn't perspiring. A medical helicopter was then called out to fly the man to Kern Medical Center. His condition is unknown.

The latest heat-related death was 42-year-old Abdon Felix of Delano who was found Wednesday off Lerdo Highway near Highway 99. He was unconscious and slumped over in his truck. The coroner said Felix died of heat stroke and his core body temperature was 108 degrees.

During the week, heat in the southern Central Valley has been ranging from 108 to 111 degrees, with the area's 34,000 acre Piute Fire creating hazardous health warnings for those outdoors.

Felix was a married father of three and worked in the Sunview Vineyards in Arvin, according to the UFW. They said he loaded grapes into a truck and took them to a grape cooling center.

Thursday the UFW is holding a press conference about the deaths.

They said dozens of farm workers have been living in the fields and heat near Lamont for the past few days. According to the UFW, some have been living in their cars since Sunday because they don't have temporary housing built.

The workers said they were promised housing to work at the field owned by Giumarra Vineyards. But those in charge at the field said the workers came unannounced and the company is scrambling to find housing for them.

"All they wanna do is work," said Juana Carbajal of the United Farm Workers

A vineyard foreman said the workers were not supposed to come to work until next Monday.

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