FPL was warned people would die at a sweltering nursing home. But the utility had other priorities.
An account supervisor for the power company was concerned by the words of the woman on the phone. The electricity was out at her mother’s nursing home, the temperature felt like 110 degrees and elderly people couldn’t breathe.
The supervisor turned to one of the company’s emergency specialists for advice, saying a caller feared the Hollywood nursing home could have “customers literally passing away because of the heat.”
The co-worker’s response: tell the nursing home to evacuate. “We can’t expedite any outages. So tell ’em to make plans. It’s going to be a long time, to be honest with you … at least a week.”
The next day, on Sept. 13, eight nursing home residents died of the heat. Another four died in later days.
Read more: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/hollywood-nursing-home-hurricane-deaths/fl-sfl-reg-fpl-hollywood-nursing-home-20180206-story.html
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