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“I can’t believe I’m getting out,” she told a caseworker over the phone, scanning her clothes hangers, handbags, space heater, and flower pots.

“And in addition to the wind roaring, there were very loud reports we could hear in the background, which we surmised to be exploding canisters of fuel for barbecues and outdoor space heater,” he added.

Using the same amount of electricity, a heat pump can provide three to four times more warmth than a plug-in space heater.

Unlike a space heater, a heat pump extracts heat from outside air, even in subzero temperatures, and then runs it through a compressor, which makes it even hotter, before pumping it indoors.

Eventually, they carried a space heater up the spiral staircase and rigged it up with an extension cord running from a lower floor.