Brothers excited to find work. A woman trying to reunite with family. These are the victims of the Texas truck tragedy
CNN
Two brothers had vowed to send their mother enough money to build her a house. A young woman sent an excited text -- "I'm in the USA now" -- only hours before her body was found. CNN spoke to family members about their lost loved ones and the dreams that died with them in an overheated truck in San Antonio.
"She didn't have to suffer," Adela Aguilar said, shaking her head as she recalled the moment when her granddaughter bid her farewell last month.
Adela Ramírez had just turned 28 and made a major decision: She was leaving Cuyamel, a small town in northwest Honduras, and heading to the United States.

The smell of wet grass from the recent atmospheric river rains, mud and gasoline wafts through the warm Southern California air as Alec Derpetrossian works the chainsaw with a foreman, Randy Magaña, who helps him guide where to put the blade. Derpetrossian is still learning how to adequately use the large tool.












