Deaths in Florida from a retirement home: Three lawyers are suing Florida, according to a lawyer today

Three people turned Monday to face the accusations in the case of a nursing home in Florida, where 12 patients died after its air conditioning fell under the effect of the overwhelming heat that followed Hurricane Irma in 2017, announced their lawyers. Two of the people who visited were nurses at the center.

A total of four people employed Hollywood Hills Rehabilitation Center at the time of Death in 2017 were to be charged, including a third nurse, told The Associated Press, lawyers Jim Cobb and Lawrence Hashish. They were not sure if the third nurse, who was not represented by the two lawyers, had surrendered.

Cobb and Hashish also indicated that they did not know what charge their clients were charged for, but that they were expecting an involuntary manslaughter. The Hollywood police, responsible for issuing arrest warrants, did not respond to multiple e-mails and voice messages from the PA.

Patients began to die a few days after Irma's passage, destroying electricity at home. Investigators said the center had not evacuated patients because the temperature inside had begun to rise, even though a fully functioning hospital was on the other side of the street. The house license was suspended several days after the storm and it was closed.

Cobb's client, the former administrator of his home, Jorge Caballo, said that other administrators had been informed several times, before the storm, that they could call the governor's cell phone Rick Scott directly for help. Cobb said that they had called five times but that they had never heard from Scott.

Cobb said the administrators "were sitting there waiting for the ordeal to come in. They never came." Hashish pointed out that "the real crime is that the state seeks to blame altruistic caregivers and the evidence will show that no crime has been committed".

Scott, who now sits in the US Senate, said in a statement that the retirement home should have called 911. "Nothing can hide the fact that this health facility has not fulfilled its fundamental duty to protect the home. life, "he said. "We have taken steps in Florida to protect our most vulnerable people, including by asking all nursing homes and assisted living facilities to have an emergency power supply." 39 urgency to ensure that such a tragedy never happens again. "

Ambulance driver Craig Wohlitka and other Hollywood Fire Rescue paramedics testified last year that he was haunted by the deaths of local patients. Fire Lieutenant Amy Parrinello said that one of the patients had a temperature of 107.5 degrees, the highest she's ever seen in a 12-year career.

Later in the morning, she said, another patient had a temperature so high that she could not be measured.