To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
End Veterans found frozen to death
I would like to propose a jobs program in memory of Bradley Sutter.
I propose that Solar heating be installed for the homes of senior veterans as well as homeless shelters for veterans.
A senior veteran should not have to choose between heating, food, or medical supplies.
I propose that Solar heating be installed for the homes of senior veterans as well as homeless shelters for veterans.
A senior veteran should not have to choose between heating, food, or medical supplies.
Why is this important?
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Korean War Veteran Found Frozen To Death Inside Home
This bitter cold weather has killed 11 people in Tennessee, most of them from hypothermia. On Wednesday, Sequatchie County deputies found a senior citizen frozen to death inside his mobile home atop Lewis Chapel Mountain.
Bradley Sutter was an 85-year-old Korean War veteran. He lived somewhat in seclusion. From Shell Road, his house isn't visible. A snow covered path lined by frozen tree branches leads to his home. It's easy to never see it.
Sheriff Ronnie Hitchcock said, "At the time we were on the mountain, it was 16 degrees outside and it felt as cold inside as it did outside."
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Updated version from wrcbtv on February 20, 2015 includes:
Fatalities
Tennessee has eleven (11), confirmed, weather-related fatalities:
Hamilton County - One (1) fatality: 63-year-old male, hypothermia related
Henry County - Two (2) fatalities: 64-year-old female, hypothermia related; 69-year-old male, hypothermia related
Hickman County (1) fatality: male, dialysis patient, unable to get to treatment
Knox County - One (1) fatality: 30-year-old male, motor vehicle accident
Overton County - One (1) fatality: 38-year-old female, motor vehicle accident
Roane County – One (1) fatality, 44-year-old male, hypothermia related
Sequatchie – One (1) fatality, 85-year-old male, hypothermia related
Shelby County - One (1) fatality: 48-year-old male, hypothermia related
Williamson County - Two (2) fatalities: 34-year-old female; 10-year-old male, motor vehicle accident
Power Outages
There are just over 6,300 customers without power this afternoon, down from more than 11,000 this morning, over six counties with the highest outage in Monroe at 5,693 customers.
Shelters Open
Red Cross (7): Warren, Sevier, Roane, Maryville, Loudon, Knox, Dyer
Independent (6): Madisonville, Loudon, Lewisburg, Coffee, McMinn, Rhea
http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/28140165/tema-confirms-6-cold-related-deaths-in-tennessee
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http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2015/feb/21/war-vet-freezes-death-inside-home/289469/
War Vet Freezes to Death Inside Home
DUNLAP, Tenn. -- After surviving two wars, frigid weather took the life of Bradley Sutter this week. Police found the 85-year-old dead in his rural mobile home with nothing but electric blankets for heat.
With temperatures in the single digits this week, concerned neighbors asked the Sequatchie County Sheriff's Office to check on Sutter, whom neighbors hadn't seen in several days. Deputies found him dead of hypothermia Wednesday afternoon inside his squalid mobile home, which is tucked away in some woods off of state Route 111 near Dunlap.
Deputies found an electric furnace in the home, but it was either broken or not turned on. Sutter's only source of heat came from two electric blankets -- one on top of him, the other underneath. A piece was missing from the bottom of the front door, plugged up with grocery bags.
...After days of searching for family members, investigators tracked down Sutter's son through an ancestry registry, though the sheriff said the two hadn't been in touch for some time. Sutter's son, who traveled from Englewood, Tenn., on Friday to sort through his father's things, declined to comment.
The winter storm that swept through the country this week has so far claimed the lives of 18 Tennesseans. Nine of those deaths were hypothermia-related, according to the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.
One of those hypothermia-related fatalities was local 64 year-old Douglas King, who was found Tuesday morning near the railroad trestles at 600 E. 11th St., just a block from the Chattanooga Community Kitchen.
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Vance Perry, age 57, Madison, Wisconsin
Army veteran freezes to death after being released from VA hospital
He was found in a parking garage in below freezing temperatures, wearing only a light jacket. The medical examiner says he likely died of hypothermia. He was 57.
Author: Staff, NBC
January 5, 2018
Atlanta Erika Perry Vance Perry Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital Paul Rickert
MADISON, Wis. -- An Atlanta family says it was negligence that led to the death of their father, an Army veteran.
Vance Perry was found dead on New Year's Eve in a freezing-cold parking garage in Madison, Wis.
http://www.ksdk.com/article/news/army-veteran-freezes-to-death-after-being-released-from-va-hospital/504994426
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http://www.kcci.com/news/person-found-dead-at-water-works-park/31387656
Richard Miles, age 40 Des Moines
"Police identified the man Saturday as 40-year-old Richard Miles. Des Moines Police Sgt. Jason Halifax said Miles was considered a missing person since Feb. 2 and that he likely died from natural causes....
Police said the man's body was 'frozen solid' and he was not wearing a coat or shoes. There was no trauma to his body."
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John Skelley, 69
Cancer-Stricken Vietnam Veteran John Skelley, 69, Freezes to Death after Michigan Utility Shuts off Gas
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2015/02/12/vietnam-veteran-hypothermia-shutoff/23327507/
Detroit Free Press
State asks: Why did Hazel Park veteran freeze to death?
By Katrease Stafford,
Detroit Free Press 10:47 p.m. EST February 12, 2015
John Skelley, 69, was found dead Feb. 1 in a home on West Pearl Street. Hazel Park police say Skelley died of hypothermia and other health issues. According to Consumers Energy, service was disconnected at the home on the afternoon of Jan. 19 and a tag with assistance and reconnection information was placed on the door.
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Korean War Veteran Found Frozen To Death Inside Home
This bitter cold weather has killed 11 people in Tennessee, most of them from hypothermia. On Wednesday, Sequatchie County deputies found a senior citizen frozen to death inside his mobile home atop Lewis Chapel Mountain.
Bradley Sutter was an 85-year-old Korean War veteran. He lived somewhat in seclusion. From Shell Road, his house isn't visible. A snow covered path lined by frozen tree branches leads to his home. It's easy to never see it.
Sheriff Ronnie Hitchcock said, "At the time we were on the mountain, it was 16 degrees outside and it felt as cold inside as it did outside."
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Updated version from wrcbtv on February 20, 2015 includes:
Fatalities
Tennessee has eleven (11), confirmed, weather-related fatalities:
Hamilton County - One (1) fatality: 63-year-old male, hypothermia related
Henry County - Two (2) fatalities: 64-year-old female, hypothermia related; 69-year-old male, hypothermia related
Hickman County (1) fatality: male, dialysis patient, unable to get to treatment
Knox County - One (1) fatality: 30-year-old male, motor vehicle accident
Overton County - One (1) fatality: 38-year-old female, motor vehicle accident
Roane County – One (1) fatality, 44-year-old male, hypothermia related
Sequatchie – One (1) fatality, 85-year-old male, hypothermia related
Shelby County - One (1) fatality: 48-year-old male, hypothermia related
Williamson County - Two (2) fatalities: 34-year-old female; 10-year-old male, motor vehicle accident
Power Outages
There are just over 6,300 customers without power this afternoon, down from more than 11,000 this morning, over six counties with the highest outage in Monroe at 5,693 customers.
Shelters Open
Red Cross (7): Warren, Sevier, Roane, Maryville, Loudon, Knox, Dyer
Independent (6): Madisonville, Loudon, Lewisburg, Coffee, McMinn, Rhea
http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/28140165/tema-confirms-6-cold-related-deaths-in-tennessee
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http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2015/feb/21/war-vet-freezes-death-inside-home/289469/
War Vet Freezes to Death Inside Home
DUNLAP, Tenn. -- After surviving two wars, frigid weather took the life of Bradley Sutter this week. Police found the 85-year-old dead in his rural mobile home with nothing but electric blankets for heat.
With temperatures in the single digits this week, concerned neighbors asked the Sequatchie County Sheriff's Office to check on Sutter, whom neighbors hadn't seen in several days. Deputies found him dead of hypothermia Wednesday afternoon inside his squalid mobile home, which is tucked away in some woods off of state Route 111 near Dunlap.
Deputies found an electric furnace in the home, but it was either broken or not turned on. Sutter's only source of heat came from two electric blankets -- one on top of him, the other underneath. A piece was missing from the bottom of the front door, plugged up with grocery bags.
...After days of searching for family members, investigators tracked down Sutter's son through an ancestry registry, though the sheriff said the two hadn't been in touch for some time. Sutter's son, who traveled from Englewood, Tenn., on Friday to sort through his father's things, declined to comment.
The winter storm that swept through the country this week has so far claimed the lives of 18 Tennesseans. Nine of those deaths were hypothermia-related, according to the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.
One of those hypothermia-related fatalities was local 64 year-old Douglas King, who was found Tuesday morning near the railroad trestles at 600 E. 11th St., just a block from the Chattanooga Community Kitchen.
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Vance Perry, age 57, Madison, Wisconsin
Army veteran freezes to death after being released from VA hospital
He was found in a parking garage in below freezing temperatures, wearing only a light jacket. The medical examiner says he likely died of hypothermia. He was 57.
Author: Staff, NBC
January 5, 2018
Atlanta Erika Perry Vance Perry Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital Paul Rickert
MADISON, Wis. -- An Atlanta family says it was negligence that led to the death of their father, an Army veteran.
Vance Perry was found dead on New Year's Eve in a freezing-cold parking garage in Madison, Wis.
http://www.ksdk.com/article/news/army-veteran-freezes-to-death-after-being-released-from-va-hospital/504994426
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http://www.kcci.com/news/person-found-dead-at-water-works-park/31387656
Richard Miles, age 40 Des Moines
"Police identified the man Saturday as 40-year-old Richard Miles. Des Moines Police Sgt. Jason Halifax said Miles was considered a missing person since Feb. 2 and that he likely died from natural causes....
Police said the man's body was 'frozen solid' and he was not wearing a coat or shoes. There was no trauma to his body."
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John Skelley, 69
Cancer-Stricken Vietnam Veteran John Skelley, 69, Freezes to Death after Michigan Utility Shuts off Gas
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2015/02/12/vietnam-veteran-hypothermia-shutoff/23327507/
Detroit Free Press
State asks: Why did Hazel Park veteran freeze to death?
By Katrease Stafford,
Detroit Free Press 10:47 p.m. EST February 12, 2015
John Skelley, 69, was found dead Feb. 1 in a home on West Pearl Street. Hazel Park police say Skelley died of hypothermia and other health issues. According to Consumers Energy, service was disconnected at the home on the afternoon of Jan. 19 and a tag with assistance and reconnection information was placed on the door.
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