Broward County Nursing Home Evacuated Due To Power Outage

WILTON MANORS, FL — Residents at an assisted living facility in Broward County are being evacuated after having been without power since Hurricane Irma.

The Williamsburg Landing assisted living facility was using generators to turn on portable air conditioning units in sections of the building, Wilton Manors City Manager Leigh Ann Henderson told The Associated Press on Thursday. The residents are being moved to two facilities across the street that have electricity.

All three facilities are owned by Manor Oaks. Williamsburg is the last assisted living facility in the city that doesn't have power. (For more information on the Williamsburg Landing evacuation and other Aventura-area stories, subscribe to Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

The move was meant “to make the residents more comfortable,” Henderson said. “It’s a comfort issue.”

Williamsburg Landing is licensed to have 100 beds, state records showed.

The nursing home evacuation comes after five women and three men ranging in age from 70 to 99 died at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills.

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