Wheelchair users and advocates say slow repairers violate state law
"They interpreted it to 10 days from when the part comes in," said Sheldon Toubman, a litigation attorney for Disability ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch24d
Used wheelchairs, old shower seats. St. Louis nonprofit collects it all, to give away
Things that aren’t in good enough shape to give away are often “Frankensteined” for parts. In the first ... to eventually transition from a power wheelchair to a manual, for example, Rejko ...
Florida picking up the pieces after Milton: 14 dead, 3M without power
Hurricane Milton "was significant, but thankfully this was not the worst case scenario," Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday.
Tampa Bay Times27d
Two neighborhoods were flooded. Should Tampa have had generators there?
About 135 guests at an assisted living facility nearby were rescued from waist-deep waters, including some who were wheelchair-bound ... neighborhood had restored power to three pumps with ...
Yahoo16d
Mountain town confronts an unexpected public health catastrophe
Helene’s destruction created a major problem for people dependent on insulin, power wheelchairs, oxygen CPAP machines for sleep apnea, or home dialysis equipment. Without electricity ...
Post and Courier11d
Mountain towns around Asheville confront public health crisis after Hurricane Helene
Helene’s destruction created a major problem for people dependent on insulin, power wheelchairs, oxygen CPAP machines for sleep apnea, or home dialysis equipment. Without electricity ...
AOL28d
Florida picking up the pieces after Milton: 14 dead, 3M without power
A now-retired structural engineer who uses a power wheelchair, Collins said being ... the hurricane center said, after parts of the area were blasted with more than 16 inches of rain.
Shropshire Star29d
Hurricane Milton batters Florida leaving more than three million without power
The storm knocked out power across a large section of Florida ... A homeless person sleeps under a wheelchair alongside a parking garage in deserted downtown Tampa, Florida (Rebecca Blackwell ...