The New York State Department of Health continued to evacuate all residents of a Greenport skilled-nursing facility late Monday after Suffolk fire marshals determined the building's fire suppression and alarm systems were not working.
The fire marshals' investigation came after a smoke condition was reported in a 911 call about 4:30 a.m. Monday at San Simeon by the Sound Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation on County Road 48.
Suffolk County Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services coordinated the county transit buses and ambulances from across Long Island that arrived Monday evening to pick up the residents, according to Fire Commissioner Rudy Sunderman.
The residents, some of whom could be seen being wheeled out of the San Simeon lobby on stretchers, were transported to other facil