LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Residents at Los Pecos Senior Residences are pissed off that their constructing’s solely working elevator has been out for days, forcing some to overlook essential physician’s appointments.
“Who’s going to walk up and down all those steps?” resident Stella Hinton requested. “We’re all old. This is a senior apartment!”
Hinton lives by herself and is blind.
“It really affects me,” Hinton stated. “Yesterday, somebody came, and they held my hand, and I tried to count the steps to make sure that I was stepping on every one.”
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A number of residents advised 8 Information Now the elevators had been out of service since Tuesday.
“We have a lot of people with vision problems, with back problems. They just can’t get around very well,” resident Sandy Websites stated. “We do okay with the elevator, but when it’s not working, not so good.”
“They won’t be able to get their doctor’s appointments, food supplies,” resident Kathryn Newman stated. She takes care of her uncle, who additionally lives within the constructing. Newman was noticed serving to her uncle get down the steps together with his walker as a result of the elevator was damaged.
“If he was alone and I wasn’t caring for him, he would not have the ability to get out,” Newman stated.
8 Information Now reached out to the property’s administration firm, Cirrus Administration Property, through telephone and e mail, and continues to be awaiting a response. We additionally visited Los Pecos Senior Residences’ on-site administration constructing, and we had been advised to name the guardian firm once more.
