SENIOR LIVING FACILITY, SUN GROVE RESORT VILLAGE, IS A DANGEROUS FIRE TRAP

SUN GROVE RESORT VILLAGE IS A FIRE TRAP

This is the third in a series of articles about dangerous problems at Sun Grove Resort Village (SGRV) property, a senior living facility located in Peoria, Arizona. This property is owned by the bank through a repossession. Arizona Officials are allowing the problems to be not totally repaired. Arizona Officials are allowing the dilapidated and dangerous senior living facility property to be sold and just pass on all the problems to a new unsuspecting buyer. That is wrong!

This first article posted on the internet was concerning the nine extremely dangerous kitchen violations which was discovered by a recent inspection by the Maricopa County Environmental Services in August this year. The second article posted on the internet was concerning the continuous mosquito problems caused by a moldy fountain discovered by a recent inspection by the Maricopa County Environmental Services in June this year. That mold article shares our SGRV toxic mold documentation and how SGRV hides the toxic mold problem with a phony mold report. This article will focus on the fact that SGRV is a “FIRE TRAP.”

THE SGRV FIRE IN SEPTEMBER 2013

 



SGRV FIRE VICTIM
JOANNE WEINKAUF-DONAVAN

                           
In September, 2013 Joanne Weinkauf-Donavan had a fire in her SGRV apartment. The 72-year old sick senior barely escaped with the help of her Hospice Caregiver.
 

Ms. Weinkauf-Donavan’s daughter Tonia Chambers put out a “plea for help” for her mother because SGRV broke all their promises of help, SGRV kept the furniture not destroyed in the fire, SGRV is made no effort to replace her mother’s belongings, and that SGRV was still demanding rent payment. Ms. Chambers stated that the SGRV had mentally harmed her mother and that her mother was forced to live in a SGRV with no furniture. Ms. Chambers asked the question after she received no help:

 

“How can a community that is basically funded on senior income be so reckless and lack resources when those same seniors are in need?”

We just spoke to Tonia Chambers and received an update about her mother. Ms. Chambers stated that they stayed at SGRV to help her mother after the fire. SGRV rented the SGRV apartment #1027 for her, her husband, and mother to live. She reported the SGRV apartment had made them sick because of the awful smell. I informed Ms. Chambers that was our SGRV apartment #1027 which was full of toxic mold. It appears that SGRV had never removed the toxic mold even after four years since we moved away from the dangerous conditions there.



NEWSPAPER PICTURE OF THE SGRV FIRE

Ms. Chambers stated that SGRV is trying to blame the fire on her mother’s cigarette smoking but she feels the bad electrical wiring caused the problems.  Her mother had paid the extra SGRV fee which allowed her to smoke in her apartment. She stated SGRV has now made the property a smoke free property by not allowing any smoking. 

 

Ms. Chambers informed us that she had moved her mother to real licensed assisted care facility where her mother’s health is improving.  Ms. Chambers said she had stopped paying SGRV the $50 a month that was demanded when her mother moved. She feels the $1,500 that SGRV demanded was unwarranted because of her mother’s personal property losses and because the fire was caused by SGRV’s bad electrical wiring.

Ms. Chambers reminded us that they were misled by A PLACE FOR MOM because that Elder Care Referral Agency (ECRA) guaranteed that SGRV was a licensed assisted living facility but it was not properly licensed. Ms. Chambers said she complained to A Place for Mom about the false advertising but she never received any response from the ECRA. We informed Ms. Chambers that we had the A Place for Mom false internet advertising contract which was signed by  SGRV’s felon manager. We informed her that we turned the contract over to the authorities (Peoria Police, Arizona Attorney General, and the FBI-IC3)  but the state and federal officials have done nothing to stop the SGRV false internet advertising. Ms. Chambers informed us that she is moving her mother back to Wisconsin where the state better protects the elderly with stronger senior protection laws.

IN CASE OF FIRE THE SGRV ELEVATORS

OFFER LITTLE HELP

 

A former SGRV senior resident, Pat Forst, filed complaints with the Peoria Fire Department that SGRV elevator phones did not work properly. Mr. Forst was also concerned that many SGRV residents that could not walk and rode scooters were forced to live on the second floor. SGRV only has two elevators that services the 86-unit apartment complex. Mr. Forst suffered extensive Landlord Retaliation by SGRV’s former manager, Scott Green, for filing complaints with the fire department while trying to protect other SGRV elderly residents.  Not much was done by the Peoria Fire Department except check the elevator phones and cite SGRV about that problem. They SGRV elevator phones quickly broke later after the follow-up inspection.

A prime example of the poorly working SGRV elevators was what happened to the SGRV resident Pam Kline. Ms. Kline used a scooter because she could not walk. SGRV put her in an apartment on the second floor after her roommate, Clay Haning, passed away. Ms. Kline’s dog, Buddy, was hung by SGRV's elevator because it did not properly reopen the door when Buddy jumped out of the elevator while he still was on his leash. SGRV did nothing about the death of Ms. Kline's dog. 

BUDDY WAS KILLED BY
SGRV'S POORLY
WORKING ELEVATOR.

SUMMARY

SGRV is a fire trap with the following problems:

1.  No fire alarms on the outside of the eleven separate SGRV buildings,

2.  No fire drills,

3.  Poorly working emergency call systems in the 86 SGRV apartments,

4.  Dangerous and poorly maintained electrical wiring,

5.  Often broken emergency elevator phones,

6.  Insufficient number of elevators to quickly evacuate the elderly residents with scooters living on the second floor,

7.   Poorly working elevators that are often broken, and

 8.  Overgrown dry landscaping which is a fire hazard.

SGRV is a poorly maintained senior living property that has extensive kitchen problems, dangerous toxic mold, and it is a FIRE TRAP.

 

SGRV should not be sold but it should be destroyed to protect the public.

 

MORE PICTURES OF THE SGRV FIRE

 

CELL PHONE PICTURE OF THE SGRV FIRE

 

CELL PHONE PICTURE OF THE SGRV FIRE