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Boat Used To Evacuate Nursing Home

104 Patients Removed From Northwest Jacksonville Facility

POSTED: Friday, August 22, 2008

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- More than 100 patients of a Northwest Jacksonville nursing home had to be rescued by boat, when rising water from a nearby creek flooded the first floor of the building.

Water began entering the Summer Brooke Health Care Center on Moncrief Road on Friday morning. By early afternoon, 8 to 12 inches of water covered the first floor of the building, and management called Jacksonville Fire-Rescue for help.

Dozens of firefighters used a boat to get the patients who could not walk through the standing water moved to waiting JTA buses.

"We just got the word they were evacuating with a boat. That's real bad to me because he's old and he was probably scared. A lot of patients probably were," said Joanna Daniels, whose dad was evacuated.

About six hours after the evacuation began, patients from all three floors of the nursing home had departed.

The patients were taken to five other nursing homes around Jacksonville. No one was hurt during the evacuation.

Even after the patients were gone, work crews remained at the center to begin the cleanup process. Supervisors said the nursing home would reopen when things were cleaned up.

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