Florida nursing home deaths spur efforts to protect elderly
By TIM REYNOLDS and TERRY SPENCER
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Emergency workers around hurricane-scarred Florida worked to make sure elderly residents were safe, evacuating multiple assisted-living facilities, after eight people died in a sweltering nursing home that lost its air conditioning in the storm.
In one of the latest actions to protect older residents, firefighters helped relocate 122 people late Wednesday from two assisted living centers near Orlando that had been without power sinc
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