​HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The death toll has risen to eight at a sweltering Florida nursing home without air conditioning in the wake of Hurricane Irma.

A total of 115 patients were evacuated from The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, where the residents had woken up sick, and from the nearby Larkin Community Hospital, officials said.

The dead were identified as Bobby Owens, 84; Manuel Mario Medieta, 96; Miguel Antonio Franco, 92; Estella Hendricks, 71; Gail Nova, 71; Carolyn Eatherly, 78; Betty Hibbard, 84 and Albertina Vega, 99.

“The causes of death are yet to be determined,” the county medical examiner said.

Temperatures soared inside the building, which was tur​​ned into a veritable oven without air conditioning. The high temperature Tuesday in Hollywood was 89, with a low of 79 degrees.

Kitchen worker Jean Lindor told the Miami Herald that a generator had been used to cook — but not to power the air conditioning system.

Lindor said through a Creole translator that the air conditioning system had not been working since Irma blew through.

Paulburn Bogle, a member of the housekeeping staff, said the nursing home had been hot but manageable as workers used fans, cold towels, ice and cold drinks to help keep residents cool.

Hollywood Police Chief Tom Sanchez said investigators believe the eight deaths were heat-related.

“The building has been sealed off and we are conducting a criminal investigation,” Sanchez said, but did not provide details or answer questions about whether a generator had been used inside the center.

Three of the patients died at the nursing home and five at the nearby Memorial Regional Hospital, where residents were evacuated.

Dr. Craig Mallak, the county medical examiner, said the victims had already been sick.

“It’s going to be tough to tell how much was the heat and how much of it was they were sick already,” he said.

Three of the six deceased patients have been identified by Mallak’s office as Estella Hendricks, 71, Gail Nova, 71, and Carolyn Eatherly, 78, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

Hollywood public affairs director Raelin Story said there was no official cause of death yet, but a number were suffering from respiratory issues, the Miami Herald reported.

Police spokeswoman Miranda Grossman said: “We saw that there were a number of people in respiratory distress.”

An air conditioning company employee said a fuse had popped out during Hurricane Irma and needed to be repaired. He said he has been trying to reach Florida Power & Light for days.

“There’s nothing we can do,” Dave Long of Airstron told WPLG. “We’ve been calling and calling. … It just doesn’t seem to be going anywhere and I can’t do anything until we get that fuse popped back in.”

He described the ordeal as “frustrating.”

The mayor said she and County Administrator Bertha Henry urged the utility Tuesday to expedite power restoration to such facilities, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

A caseworker told The Post at the scene that he was trying to find out information about his client, an 89-year-old woman who has been at the center for about five years.

“She was on the second floor of the nursing home. She was doing well, everybody was doing well. I haven’t heard from her. I’m going to have to go to the hospital to see if she was admitted,” said the caseworker, who gave only his first name, Ed.

“I don’t know if she died, I haven’t spoken to her since the storm. I was stuck at home. I don’t know the preparations for the storm here,” he added.

Willie Nunez, of Cooper City, Fla., who was checking to see if his sister-in-law’s 94-year-old mother was alive, said his family had not been notified of the power outage.

“We were told she was poisoned by some gas — carbon monoxide. I am trying to find her right now and see what is going on. I haven’t heard anything from the facility,” he told The Post. “No one got in touch with me. My wife told me to go over there to see what’s going on.”

A Fort Lauderdale woman also showed up to look for her great-grandmother, who also is 94.

“Imagine the heat, I am 29 and I can’t take it and for them to have to sit through is terrible,” Amber Mickles told The Post.

“My great-grandmother is here right now, she is somewhere in here. I don’t know exactly how it went down. But I think she is somewhere in here,” she said, adding that she, too, had not been notified of the power outage.

The 152-bed Rehabilitation Center of Hollywood Hills provides short-term rehabilitative services and long-term care, according to its website.

The police chief said precautionary checks would be done at Hollywood’s 42 other nursing homes.

With ​Yaron Steinbuch, Danika Fears and ​Post wires

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