Salem senior home residents taken to Delmont fire hall after problem with heating system
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About 40 residents and staff members were moved from Ark Manor senior living facility in Salem to the Delmont Volunteer Fire Department on Tuesday night after a problem with the heating system, a move that emergency officials hope is temporary.
“We’re trying to get the heat temporarily back on in the building, because the gas company right now has the heater red-tagged,” Forbes Road Chief Bob Rosatti said.
A red tag indicates a safety concern with an appliance.
Ark Manor officials were not immediately available for comment.
Fire crews from Slickville and Forbes Road were called shortly before 8 p.m. to the facility for a report of a carbon monoxide alarm in the building, Rosatti said.
By 8:30 p.m., residents sitting in the parking lot with blankets and coats were being loaded into Mutual Aid and Westmoreland County Transit Authority vehicles and taken to the fire hall in Delmont.