This is al-Jazeera which comes closest in MSM to telling how it is.
For anyone doubtful about a cover-up look back at the events after the Grenfell Towers fire. The deaths of hundreds was covered up.
Eight dead at Florida nursing home in Irma aftermath
Elderly residents perish in the sweltering Florida heat after power outage halts air conditioners in care home.
14
September, 2017
Eight
patients at a sweltering nursing home died after Hurricane Irma
knocked out the airconditioning, raising fears about the safety of
Florida's four million senior citizens amid power outages that could
last for days.
Hollywood
Police Chief Tom Sanchez said investigators believe the deaths at the
Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills were heat-related.
"The
building has been sealed off, and we are conducting a criminal
investigation," said Sanchez.
Governor
Rick Scott called on Florida emergency workers to immediately check
on all nursing homes to make sure patients are safe, and he vowed to
punish anyone found culpable in the deaths.
"This
situation is unfathomable," he said.
The
home said in a statement that the hurricane had knocked out a
transformer that powered the airconditioning.
The
five women and three men ranged in age from their 70s to 99.
Exactly
how the deaths happened was under investigation, with Sanchez saying
authorities have not ruled anything out, including carbon monoxide
poisoning from generators. He also said investigators would look into
how many windows were open.
Across
the street from the stifling nursing home sat a fully air-conditioned
hospital, Memorial Regional.
Broward
County said the nursing home had alerted the county emergency
operations centre on Tuesday that it had lost power, but when asked
if it had any medical needs or emergencies, it did not request help.
"It's
a sad state of affairs," the police chief said. "We all
have elderly people in facilities, and we all know we depend on those
people in those facilities to care for a vulnerable elderly
population."
The
deaths came as people trying to put their lives back together in
hurricane-stricken Florida and beyond confronted a multitude of new
hazards in the storm's aftermath, including tree-clearing accidents
and lethal generator fumes.
Not
counting the nursing home deaths, at least 17 people in Florida have
died under Irma-related circumstances, and six more in South Carolina
and Georgia, many of them well after the storm had passed. The death
toll across the Caribbean stood at 38.
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