This article about an administrator of an assisted living facility who deactivated the fire alarm in the facility is incredible. Can you imagine someone doing this? I hope that this assisted living facility employee was immediately terminated. Placing the lives of the elderly at risk like this is quasi-criminal. People generally do not understand how often fires occur at nursing homes and Assisted Living Facilities. This article goes on to say that officials “levied a total of $125,000 in administrative fines in May against 44 assisted-living facilities.”
I personally represented the family of a woman who burned alive in the NHC fire in Nashville. During the NHC fire litigation, there were several other Tennessee-based nursing home fires that broke out but fortunately were contained.
Thankfully the local firefighters discovered the violation(s) in this case.
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Miramar Assisted Living Home Cited for Fire Safety Violation – www.articles.sun-sentinel.com – Miramar, FL
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