Old Age or Poor Management

The fires in California resulted in a two-day power shut-off to shut down the wildfires. One group affected by this shutdown was a group of seniors who resided in a senior center in Northern California. They lived in a low-income apartment complex and were trapped with their wheelchairs and walkers. Although they were old, sick or cognitively impaired to care for themselves during an extended outage, they were without guidance from their property management company or the utility behind the blackout as they faced pitch-black stairwells and hallways and elevators that shut down.