Prosecutors have dropped manslaughter charges against three nurses who were present when 12 Florida nursing home patients suffered fatal overheating five years ago after Hurricane Irma
FILE - A woman is transported from The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills as patients are evacuated after a loss of air conditioning due to Hurricane Irma on Sept. 13, 2017, in Hollywood, Fla. Prosecutors dropped manslaughter charges Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022, against three nurses who had been present when 12 nursing home patients suffered fatal overheating five years ago after a hurricane knocked out power to their facility's air conditioning. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.
Carballo's attorney, James Cobb, did not immediately return a call Thursday seeking comment. He sent a letter to Broward State Attorney Harold Pryor last week saying, “I’ve never seen a more malicious, misguided prosecution in my life." The deaths began at the Rehabilitation Center of Hollywood Hills three days after Irma knocked out a transformer that powered the cooling system at the 150-bed, two-story facility in suburban Fort Lauderdale. Otherwise, the facility never lost power.
Temperatures that week were in the upper 80s . On Sept. 12, two days after the storm, serious problems began to arise.to keep the patients cool, but they were not properly installed. The units on the first floor were vented into the ceiling, meaning they were displacing heat into the second floor. That's where 11 of the 12 victims lived.
Carballo told investigators that when he left at 11 p.m. the temperature inside the home was safe. The report found that “not credible.”
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