Harris County has mandated backup power generation for nursing homes and assisted living facilities to protect vulnerable seniors during power outages.
Harris County Precinct 4 Commissioner Lesley Briones declared a new era of protection from weather-related injury and death for Harris County 's vulnerable senior citizens.A measure amending the Harris County Fire Code went into effect on January 1 mandating that nursing homes and assisted living facilities install back-up electrical generation capable of running heating and air-conditioning units in a crisis.
Briones says approval of the safety measure was driven by power outages during the brutal winter storm of 2021, and more recently Hurricane Beryl, which knocked out life-preserving electricity at 44 local nursing homes and assisted living facilities."This is for all of our families whether it's our parents, our grandparents, our great grandparents, all of us. We are all aging and this could be us.
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