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Article snippet: The Florida nursing home where eight residents died on Wednesday after the building lost air-conditioning said Friday that it had repeatedly called the local power company and had been assured that help was on the way. The nursing home, according to its statement and interviews with its representatives on Friday, first called the local utility, Florida Power & Light, on Sunday afternoon after power to the air-conditioning system went out. The utility said that a representative would arrive on Monday morning, but changed its expected arrival time in subsequent phone calls to Monday afternoon, then Tuesday morning, then Tuesday afternoon, the nursing home said. The home’s residents began dying early Wednesday morning. The nursing home, which is owned by Larkin Community Hospital, also said it spoke repeatedly with government agencies, including the Florida Department of Emergency Management, the Agency for Health Care Administration and the Florida Department of Health. Natasha Anderson, the chief executive of Larkin Community Hospital Behavioral Health Services, which shares a building with the nursing home, said she had called Gov. Rick Scott’s cellphone on Monday evening and left a voice mail message about the air-conditioning issue at the home. “I said it was urgent,” she said, adding that she had not been able to speak to Mr. Scott. The governor, she said, had provided his cellphone number on an earlier call with her and other health care administrators, a... Link to the full article to read more