How do you get a building full of non-ambulatory patients out? I'm withholding judgement until I find out if they even had alternatives. Just "warning" isn't enough. You have to have several abulances, and ambulance drivers, to evacuate dozens of patients. Seems to me that the authorities are looking for someone they can point to, and beat up...
There were buses available to evacuate these patients, buses that were turned down by the owners.
In fact, there were 3 or 4 other nursing homes close by, all of which evacuated.
(I heard that last night from I think the AG or maybe DA who is charging them, or it could have been a local police officer, it was on Nancy Grace's show.)
The owners took a boat out when only half of these patients had been gotten out. They left 5 aides to try to get the rest out. Nancy Grace described one of the aides as a tiny little woman.
They did the evacuation very late in the game, the owner said that they never had to evacuate before, so didn't think they would have to this time.