Miami Herald Homero Giviria, 76, walks past a flooded Aventura apartment on his way to work in December 2019.
When Hurricane Irma roared across South Florida in September 2017, winds cut off power to the elderly residents at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, leaving them in suffocating heat for more than three days.
As rooms in the 152-bed facility heated up, residents began having trouble breathing. Their temperatures soared. Fourteen people died, including Pedro Franco’s parents.
“It didn’t have to be that way,” said Franco, who sued the facility for negligence. It was 100 percent avoidable.”
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