Our names are Adam & Jonathan Korman.
In 2024, our mother Kate Korman was living in the retirement community Sun City West outside Phoenix, Arizona.
That May, she had an overdue balance of $423 with Arizona Public Service, so shortly after her 82nd birthday they cut off her electricity. Temperatures were in the 90s and climbing. Without air conditioning, the heat killed her within a few days.
We took this as a tragic mishap at the time, but the following year we learned that leaving people to die in the heat is APS policy.
Kate Korman did not have to die
Our mother was not the first. We want it to stop. So we are telling her story.
