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Woman with 4 Jobs Dies While Napping in Car

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This tragic death raises questions about the economy. It’s time to raise minimum wage – working four jobs and being forced to nap in one’s car between shifts to make ends meet is unacceptable. Minimum wage =/= livable wage and it should.

Maria Fernandes, 32, of Newark, NJ, worked four jobs, including two at different Dunkin Donuts stores. In between working, she would often park in public lots and catch up on sleep. She kept a can of gasoline in her car because she had occasionally run out of gas in the past during her job commutes.

On Monday, Fernandes pulled into a WaWa convenience store parking lot in Elizabeth, NJ, to nap. Concerned employees called 911. When emergency workers arrived and opened her car door, they were met with a toxic odor. Workers determined that Fernandes was dead and called Hazmat workers to the scene.

Fernandes died from inhaling a fatal mixture of carbon monoxide from her car, which was running, and the can of gasoline that spilled open in the back of her car.

Elizabeth police Lt. Daniel Saulnier told The Star-Ledger of Newark . “This sounds like someone who tried desperately to work and make ends meet, and met with a tragic accident.”

Woman Working 4 Jobs to Make Ends Meet Dies While Napping in Car Between Shifts

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Woman Working 4 Jobs to Make Ends Meet Dies While Napping in Car Between Shifts

A New Jersey woman who worked four jobs, who sometimes “wouldn’t sleep for five days,” according to a co-worker, died Monday while napping between shifts in her car on the side of the road.

Maria Fernandes died in her 2001 Kia Sportage after inhaling carbon monoxide and fumes from an overturned gas container she kept in the car, according to the New York Daily News.

The 32-year-old Newark woman pulled into a WAWA convenience store lot in Elizabeth, New Jersey for a nap early Monday. She left the car running. The carbon monoxide and gasoline fumes were the likely cause of death, authorities said.

Fernandes was found dead in the car around eight hours later when EMTs responded to a 911 call of a woman found in a vehicle with closed windows and doors. Emergency workers sensed a strong chemical odor upon entering the vehicle, authorities said.

“This sounds like someone who tried desperately to work and make ends meet, and met with a tragic accident,” Elizabeth police Lt. Daniel Saulnier said, according to NJ. com.

An autopsy this week failed to determine the exact cause of death. Police are awaiting results of toxicology tests, Saulnier said, adding that no foul play is suspected.

Fernandes emigrated to the United States from Portugal. She was beloved by co-workers at the Penn Station Dunkin’ Donuts in Manhattan, who called her a model employee.

“She used to work like three shifts every day,” Parth Patel told NJ. com. “Sometimes she wouldn’t sleep for five days.”

Fernandes also logged shifts at the chain store’s Linden and Harrison, New Jersey locations, co-workers said.

“She was a very sweet person. A hardworking person,” said Ravina Ramjit. “She was always joking around with everybody.”

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So Sad: Woman With 4 Jobs Dies Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning While Taking A Nap In Her Car Before Next Shift

A New Jersey woman struggling to make ends meet died in a sports utility vehicle parked outside a New Jersey convenience store.

Police said it appeared Maria Fernandes of Newark was trying to nap in her SUV parked at a Wawa convenience store parking lot on Spring Street in Elizabeth.

Lt. Daniel Saulnier tells The Star-Ledger of Newark that she sounded like someone who tried her best to earn a living. The paper reported that she had four jobs.

“This sounds like someone who tried desperately to work and make ends meet, and met with a tragic accident,” Saulnier told the paper.

Elizabeth police say it appears a deadly mixture of carbon monoxide and fumes from an overturned gasoline container overcame Fernandes.

The 32-year-old was found dead inside her 2001 Kia Sportage around 4 p. m. Monday.

Police said Fernandes worked at several Dunkin Donuts stores in the area and it wasn’t unusual for her to park in a public access parking lot in between jobs to get a few hours of sleep. She was scheduled to lend her SUV to a friend two hours after she parked her vehicle in the lot that afternoon, police said.

Workers at the Wawa store became concerned when they saw Fernandes in her car and called 911. Responding EMTs were able to get into the vehicle but were immediately overpowered by some sort of chemical smell, police said.

Once they determined the woman was dead, the workers backed away and alerted firefighters and hazmat crews.

Hazmat officials later determined the smell was gasoline from a gas can that had apparently spilled in the back of the vehicle. Investigators say Fernandes apparently traveled with the can because she had run out of gas in the past while commuting between jobs.

Fernandes has family in Portugal, and they have been notified of her death, police said.

An official cause of death is pending toxicology results, but an autopsy has determined that there’s no reason to suspect foul play in Fernandes’ death, police said.

Rest in peace to this hard-working woman and condolences to her entire family.

New Jersey woman trying to nap in her car between working four jobs dies of fume inhalation

Published: 20:59 GMT, 28 August 2014 | Updated: 22:34 GMT, 28 August 2014

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A New Jersey woman who worked four jobs died while apparently napping in her car.

Elizabeth police say it appears 32-year-old Maria Fernandes of Newark was overcome by a deadly mixture of carbon monoxide and fumes from an overturned gasoline container.

She kept the extra gas in her 2001 Kia Sportage because occasionally she ran out of gas, authorities said.

Maria Fernandes of Newark was overcome by a deadly mixture of carbon monoxide and fumes from an overturned gasoline container while trying to rest between one of her four jobs

Lt. Daniel Saulnier tells The Star-Ledger of Newark it sounds like someone who tried desperately to work and make ends meet and met with a tragic accident.

She worked four jobs, including two shifts at separate Dunkin Donuts.

Saulnier says an autopsy failed to determine the cause of death and police are awaiting toxicology test results.