The suit alleges state parks employees should have known high heat would endanger volunteers for the 2021 Bighorn Sheep Count, including 68-year-old Culver City resident Donald White Jr.
The widow of a man who died leading up to last summer’s scheduled bighorn sheep count in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park filed a wrongful death lawsuit this week against state parks officials, alleging theThe suit filed Tuesday in San Diego Superior Court alleges state parks employees should have known high heat would endanger volunteers for the 2021 Bighorn Sheep Count, including 68-year-old Culver City resident Donald White Jr., who died on June 19, 2021 of environmental hypothermia.
White was working as a volunteer for the sheep count and his tasks included “carrying water into exposed areas of the desert to cache and be used later by participants The suit alleges parks employees failed to establish appropriate safety procedures to protect volunteers and should not have allowed White to take part in activities associated with the count because of the heat.