KENNEDY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A Kennedy Township assisted living facility was evacuated Thursday after a water pipe ruptured inside the building.
The break occurred in the kitchen at The Willows on Heckel Road. Three to 4 inches of water has swamped the room.
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The Red Cross is helping 52 residents, who are all elderly. They were placed on Port Authority of Allegheny County buses and moved to the Kennedy Township Fire Hall, where they will be sleeping on cots.
"They will be here overnight," said Paula Bauerle, a shelter supervisor. "They’ll be fed, and we have snacks, water and I believe a pizza place donated pizza to them."
Special staff will be there to help.
"They will have people from the apartments come over because these folks have nurses and their nurses, will be coming over with them. They’ll be bringing the things they need from there," Bauerle said. "We have medical cots for folks that maybe are elderly and can’t sleep on the regular cots and have medical issues that they have to head up on it."
The Red Cross is loading special medical cots for the elderly residents that they are expecting from Willows Assisted Living Facility. They will be here until at least tomorrow morning @WPXI pic.twitter.com/dJfjWoqDPs
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