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(20,451 posts) Mon Oct 29, 2012, 09:44 PM Oct 2012

NYU Hospital backup generators have failed [View all]

Power out + backup generators have failed tonight at NYU Hospital, one of NYC's largest. Patients/staff being evacuated. @takeactionnews

https://twitter.com/davidshuster/status/263098501062356992

Absolutely horrible. Please send good thoughts their way.

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NYU Hospital backup generators have failed [View all] NYC Liberal Oct 2012 OP

Why did that happen, I wonder? There might be an opening MADem Oct 2012 #1

I don't know. Hopefully it was something that wasn't preventable. NYC Liberal Oct 2012 #2

We're doing miraculously well--for a change. MADem Oct 2012 #12

Yes, they need our good thoughts a terrible situation!! Thekaspervote Oct 2012 #3

Sh*t. liberalmuse Oct 2012 #4

I wonder if they are in the basement... jimlup Oct 2012 #5

Ours are at ground level TrogL Oct 2012 #11

Yeah Ok... jimlup Oct 2012 #14

I was under the impression that a lot of the multi storied buildings that had generators madokie Oct 2012 #21

The roof wouldn't take the weight TrogL Oct 2012 #50

The new paradigm in construction is to put them on the roof--it's a good move, I think. nt MADem Oct 2012 #15

And then when a Cat 4 or 5 hits, goodbye generators... Marmitist Oct 2012 #28

Not if they're encased in a concrete block house on top of the roof with high walls MADem Oct 2012 #32

Oh boy! It doesn't get worse than this... Rhiannon12866 Oct 2012 #6

he tweets they are manually evacuating PICU and NICU down 9 flights of stairs Tsiyu Oct 2012 #7

Brings nightmares from another disaster in another country. nadinbrzezinski Oct 2012 #13

Or another state. Iris Oct 2012 #24

Oh my god. That's horrendous. Utterly horrible. Care Acutely Oct 2012 #18

Good grief--you'd think they could find a way to hook up a portable generator--or a firetruck MADem Oct 2012 #19

You've got patients on all sorts of electrical apparatus Tsiyu Oct 2012 #36

A generator is plenty of "goose" to send an elevator up and down. MADem Oct 2012 #40

Ah, gotcha Tsiyu Oct 2012 #42

Glad that they're getting everyone relocated. I hope there are no health consequences MADem Oct 2012 #46

I assume they meant to get the elevator moving... Chan790 Oct 2012 #41

Memories of Katrina hospital.....ugggghhhh dixiegrrrrl Oct 2012 #20

I only had to get one neonate at a time in an isolette Tsiyu Oct 2012 #29

Shades of Katrina. nt valerief Oct 2012 #8

Oh no! myrna minx Oct 2012 #9

Sending good vibes like crazy. This is close to home for me. Chorophyll Oct 2012 #10

Oh hell. This is the worst of the worst. nolabear Oct 2012 #16

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You should self delete this obamanut2012 Oct 2012 #23

REALLY? What about the preemies from NICU, are they Care Acutely Oct 2012 #27

Heartless response. Heartless. nolabear Oct 2012 #30

That's a bad situation--bagging vent patients, IV pumps on TwilightGardener Oct 2012 #22

Report citing Mayor: morningfog Oct 2012 #25

My gosh! That's awful! tblue Oct 2012 #26

Just heard mention of another hospital running out of fuel for generators as well. jackbenimble Oct 2012 #31

Bellevue. Via FDNY. Ruby the Liberal Oct 2012 #35

880AM reporting on it now Tsiyu Oct 2012 #33

FDNY: "Bellevue Hospital is running out of Oxygen & have about 1 HOUR of Power left on Generator" Ruby the Liberal Oct 2012 #34

Why so soon, I wonder?! obamanut2012 Oct 2012 #43

They are saying now that they are sending in National Guard Ruby the Liberal Oct 2012 #45

I've lived where a generator kept a hospital going for over a day obamanut2012 Oct 2012 #47

Thats what I am not getting Ruby the Liberal Oct 2012 #48

Exactly obamanut2012 Oct 2012 #49

Wow. ABC just showed a preemie being taken from the hospital (pic): NYC Liberal Oct 2012 #37

Wow Tsiyu Oct 2012 #39

This is just terrible. Such a nightmare. Arugula Latte Oct 2012 #38

This is five-star Terrible. Shit. Poll_Blind Oct 2012 #44