Montreal families call for better crisis planning after winter outages linked to 2 deaths
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Two women died during extreme cold and power outages in Montreal, highlighting gaps in emergency support for vulnerable residents.
Families and community groups in Montreal are calling for improved emergency planning after two women died during the recent extreme cold and power outages, raising concerns about the safety of the city’s most vulnerable residents.
Power outages over the weekend left about 15,000 customers without electricity, primarily in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and Côte-Saint-Luc areas, in some cases for more than 48 hours.
The outages coincided with overnight temperatures plunging into the mid-minus-20s, and heavy snowfall in parts of Quebec.
Two women were found dead during separate wellness checks on Sunday. Among them, 87-year-old Sheila Padmore in NDG was suffering from hypothermia. Her death is now under investigation by a Quebec coroner.
According to a neighbour, Dawn Lambing, Padmore’s core body temperature was measured at 22 degrees Celsiubefore she suffered a heart attack in the ambulance.
“I brought her husband to the hospital to see her. The doctor called us in right away, and he told us that she had hypothermia. Her heart stopped in the ambulance,” Lambing said.
Residents say the deaths highlight gaps in the city’s emergency response, particularly for people who are elderly, living with disabilities, facing financial hardship, or caring for children with special needs.
“I’m always concerned for those who are marginalized and who we can easily forget,” said NDG community worker Marcelle Partouche Gutierrez with MYCASA.
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