Page 22 - Generator Power News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

On the ground. the department of veterans affairs has made beds available to support local hospitals and will be available to assist in response and hhs and fema are working to deploy additional assets as needed. on hospitals, we also have approximately 39 facilities as i understand using generator power and we are, of course, working on the clock to get power back on where we can. this is certainly an area where we not only did the president speak purposefully over the course of the last few months and many of our high level officials spoke out about the need for people to get vaccinated, but...

This damage for quite a while and you mentioned the power outage. that is critical for us. and it's really a million homes and businesses that are out, and my best guess is you're getting closer to 2 million people without electricity right now, and of course we're trying to prioritize the restoration so that our hospitals come back up first because while they're all on generator power, generators typically, you know, failed after some period of time. so we want to get them back up first and in the meantime, we already have the corps of engineers on the ground identifying additional generators...

Here as you said the city is in the dark. we jump from having a quarter million people around the stay out of power to having it close to 1 million. out of power. a lot of that happened three hours ago we had a catastrophic transmission failure at the energy plants here. that cut power to the entire city you can see very little power around me right now including a building back there that's all generator power. this is a densely populated area and people don't usually have power. there's no rescues underway until these wind gusts stop. there may not be in the morning. we'll see how this goes....

A number of hospitals operating on generator power and we know some people are stranded that will need some assistance. this is going to have some significant impacts. these are just the initial report. we're going to see a lot more once the assessment teams get out early this morning. >> all right. so this thing hit as a strong category 4. and i know that you're still trying to assess what that means. but what is your expectation of what that means? >> yeah. it remains a category 4 for several hours over the southern parts of louisiana. so they just got the impacts from the winds, from the si...

Electric company. but with this damage, it's going to take us some time to be able to clear the roads. those streets are going to be flooded. to clear the roads of trees, to get these crews here. so, you know, you're going to have hospital systems that are on generator power. very, very difficult time right now for us. i have no doubt we will come through, but it is a lot going on in our community right now. >> you have been through hurricanes before. how does this compare? >> this one, since i've been in office, is by far the worst case. this one is very difficult right now because i don't kn...