{"id":66198,"date":"2024-07-23T12:27:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T19:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=66198"},"modified":"2024-07-23T12:27:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T19:27:23","slug":"caltrans-worker-killed-on-i-5-in-san-clemente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=66198","title":{"rendered":"Caltrans Worker Killed on I-5 in San Clemente"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Orange County, CA 7\/22\/2024<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Caltrans is mourning the death today of Alexander Rodish, a roadway maintenance employee who was killed while working near Avenida Palizada on Interstate 5 (I-5) in San Clemente.<\/p>\n<p>After 9:30 a.m. today, Alexander, 55, was struck by a vehicle on northbound I-5 in San Clemente.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaltrans mourns the loss of one of our own today. Alexander was a dedicated maintenance employee who was working to make our roads safer,\u201d said Caltrans Director Tony Tavares. \u201cOur thoughts and support go out to his family, friends and colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alexander began at Caltrans in 2021 and was an equipment operator II at the San Juan Capistrano maintenance yard. He is survived by two adult children, a sister and a brother.<\/p>\n<p>In Alexander\u2019s honor, flags will be lowered to half-staff on the State Capitol and all Caltrans buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1921, 194 Caltrans workers have lost their lives on the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange County, CA 7\/22\/2024 \u2013\u00a0Caltrans is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66199,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66198\/revisions\/66199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}