Joe Shine/Jersey Journal

Faulty sprinklers cause flooding at Jersey City Medical Center

The first-floor lobby of New Jersey facility floods when two sprinklers in the lobby inadvertently turned on


The first-floor lobby of Jersey City Medical Center-Barnabas Health was flooded recently when two sprinklers in the lobby ceiling inadvertently turned on, according to an article on the NJ.com website.

The flooding was confined to the first floor and water could be seen flowing out of the hospital's front entrance.

An electrical impulse, which the sprinkler system misinterpreted as an actual fire, activated the sprinklers, according to a hospital spokesman.

The sprinklers flooded the elevator banks of seven of the seven-story hospital's elevators. Visitors were turned away because the hospital was using the two working elevators for transporting equipment, food and patients.

There was damage to the hospital's lobby and gift shop.

Read the article.

 

 



November 14, 2014


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