Page 48 - Generator Power News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

But it's incredibly frustrating. one of the hospitals i visited yesterday just outside of the central part of the island, it's a hospital that's caring for some 200 patients. they have patients in the icu. they are still on generator power. the generators were working when i was there, but they have no idea at it generators are going to continue to work, or if they're going to continue to get fuel. they had to move patients twice from the icu to a different part of the hospital. would you take care of critical patients not knowing if you're going to get fuel, or medications you need? i don't u...

Commercial boulevard facility came up yesterday. one of our assisted livings came up monday. and we're back up, except for one facility, which we still are on generator power. and we're monitoring every resident in there. we're doing fine. but we're able now with our other facilities to take in some of the folks that had to be moved from the other facility. >> so if you're taking in about 30 or so people, do you have any idea how they're faring, their conditions? are they okay? >> we have no idea at this point what condition they're in. i would presume that all of us that have been down here t...

Homeowner. that's how that process works. >> how long will that take? >> i caution people to be very patient here between re-entry and that process. we could have power down in homes for the coming weeks. weeks. now i don't want to cause panic in florida, and come to a question here, next, there are hospitals and nursing homes and other facilities that have generator power to provide services that are necessary. and there the concern is providing fuel to those generators should she run out. from that perspective, the federal government provide as great deal of fuel, a great deal of transport a...

Latest updates on this topic from reliable sources.

Governor. new york state has 1.38 million people without power. the area where you are is an area -- a zone of new york city that was evacuated. what's the word down there? did most people heed the warning, ida? >> you know, we were down here and we saw them packing up. a lot of people said they were not going to ride it out like they did irene. it's hard to say. you can see some of the windows in some of these high rises where there is power to them, generator power or what have you, but obviously it's very dark down here in lower manhattan with the power that's been shut off on purpose in ma...