The Louisiana Department of Health was aware of plans from seven nursing homes to evacuate their residents to a warehouse in Independence, Louisiana, to shelter during Hurricane Ida.

Louisiana edged closer Tuesday to assigning responsibility for nursing home emergency plans to a specific state agency and closing a regulatory loophole that may have contributed to the horrific ...

But the plan in the event of an emergency was always to evacuate residents of seven nursing homes to the warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish, documents submitted to the state show.

Five deaths have now been directly linked to the storm and the evacuation to Independence, but 27 more have died since.

Documents from Dean’s evacuation plan, released by the state, show that he charged his own nursing homes $240,000 a year to maintain access to the warehouse in Independence in case of an emergency.

The Yolo County Sheriff's Office said the explosion happened near County Road 23 and County Road 86A. Deputies said a warehouse storing fireworks exploded, sparking a fire. It was reported just before ...

Nearly a month after Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana, there are still major questions about a warehouse-turned evacuation center for nursing home residents.

Officials have revoked the licenses of seven nursing homes involved in an evacuation that crammed elderly and vulnerable residents into a warehouse.

Voluntary evacuations, shelter-in-place orders end following massive warehouse fire in Jenkintown Voluntary evacuation area (Courtesy Abington Township) ...

The 911 calls made from a Louisiana warehouse where more than 800 nursing home residents were sent to shelter during Hurricane Ida depict a chaotic scene, according to logs of the calls obtained ...

However, the details included in those plans paint less than a clear picture of what the evacuation would really look like. For example, in nursing home evacuation planning documents submitted to ...

The Louisiana Department of Health was aware of plans from seven nursing homes to evacuate their residents to a warehouse in Independence, Louisiana, to shelter during Hurricane Ida.