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An employee allegedly left the first client alone in a car twice in one day: once to pay for gasoline and another time to drop clothing off to her son. The second client escaped from her bedroom window and the third client $A,alked out of his yard without an employee noticing. Neighbors returned the clients during two of the incidents. Complaint records do not show any recent escape incidents at the facility from which Bush stole the van he would eventually crash. They do reveal notes about a resident's known behavior in 2014. The resident, listed as "Client 2" in the report, was known to "flee from his home and out of staff's eyesight" The report goes on to classify the facility's residents as "severely and profoundly retarded clients who are aggressive, assaultive or security risks:' The facility, it said, failed to staff enough employees to care for each client. Sometimes one employee would take care of four clients for hours at a time. Records from Metro 911 of Kanawha County show emergency services responded to the facility about 35 times in the last two years. , many as 10 calls were from people concerned about patients outside the facility, said Rick McElhaney, the deputy director of Metro 911. Most of the other calls were for triggered fire alarms, he said. nnn In 2016, an employee of the ResCare agency in Beckley put a girl, who was confined to a wheelchair, into a company van with low tire pressure, an expired registration card and an odometer that displayed nearly 7,000 miles more than the recommended number for an oil change. The employee grabbed two of four available straps to secure the wheelchair and hooked them to the wrong spots, the OHFLAC report shows. The girl fell over and hit her head during the trip. Instead of calling for help, the employee notified another staff member who then called for an ambulance. Emergency responders transported the girl to a hospital, and authorities then directed her to Charleston Area Medical Center 30 minutes later for a "brain bleed" The employee who failed to secure the wheelchair resigned at a company office.