On Wednesday October 21, 2009 I received a phone call that said that my grandfather was dying and that I needed to get to the nursing home in Mansfield, MO as quick as I could. I was almost to Mansfield when I got another phone call. The nursing home was on fire. I quickly got to the nursing home just as the fire department was getting there. I pulled in only to find out that the rest of my family was escorting patients from the nursing home and was evacuating the patients. Upon further finding out, when the home caught on fire, my family (most of which are either police officers or fire dept personel) jumped and started moving people out, without even being told to do so, they knew that they had to get these people out ASAP! The nursing home was understaffed and could not get all of the patients out in time, so the Delcour family got the residents from their beds, and escorted them to the outside, and later into another wing of the hospital, and then back to bed. I was never so proud of my family to watch them pull together and get people to safety as they did.
This story isn't anything special, but it is to me, and I just wanted to share what I saw from my family.
NH WORKER says ...
On Friday, Oct 30 at 11:51 AM
i work in a nursing home on nite shift as well. it scares me to death to think what if we had a fire, our building is an older one as well. with no more than 6 workers how can you get 100 residents out in time?