In a postscript to the story of the Florida nursing home concerning liability insurance coverage questions for various actors, the Florida governor's office says that all the calls to the governor's cellphone for help during Irma were returned.
We cannot listen to the calls themselves, actually. The calls were recorded.
But they have been deleted.
All the calls were returned though, the governor's office says. And anyway, they say, the calls did not indicate an emergency. See Caitlin Ostroff, "Voicemails From Nursing Home Where 11 Died Were Deleted by Governor's Office" (Tampa Bay Times online, posted on Monday, September 25, 2017).
As noted in the previous articles posted here, for its part the nursing home reportedly says no, its calls for help were not answered. Read the hyperlinked sources in the previous articles posted here. You can see for yourself whether what the nursing home says that it said in its voicemail messages, reflected an emergency, or not. Parenthetically, the nursing home also says that it also called 911. In a statement, the Florida governor's office says in effect that was too late and no-one should confuse the Florida governor's cellphone with 911. See Kirby Wilson, "Rick Scott Fires Back at Critics in Statement on Hollywood Nursing Home Deaths" (Tampa Bay Times online, posted Tuesday, September 26, 2017). The linked article appends a copy of the Florida governor's office's statement. A review of the statement does not reflect why exactly the Florida governor did give out his cellphone number.
Other people made calls and left voicemails at the Florida governor's cellphone about the overheated conditions facing the residents of the Florida nursing home. No clear word yet on whether the calls that other people made to the governor's cellphone, in addition to the calls made by the nursing home itself, reflected the emergency at the nursing home during Irma, but since all the calls have all been deleted, we cannot listen to any of them, apparently.
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