At least 20 seniors with wheelchairs and walkers were essentially trapped, in the dark, in a low-income US apartment complex during a two-day power shut-off aimed at warding off wildfires. Eric Risberg/AP Villas resident Pamela Zuzak, 70: "There was nothing, nothing lit. "We were surprised by how dark it was," said Pamela Zuzak, 70, who uses a walker to get around. He said about a third of the Villas' 140 residents are too old, sick or cognitively impaired to care for themselves during an extended outage. He alleges the property management company VPM "abandoned" its tenants.

Source: Stuff November 01, 2019 00:33 UTC