A generator failure at Flinders Medical Centre during South Australia's recent statewide blackout during was most likely due to human error, according to an article on the ABC News website.
A cluster of tornados damaged transmission towers.
Embryos, waiting to be transferred at a fertility clinic at Flinders Medical Centre were destroyed as a result of the blackout.
The report has revealed the hospital generator failure was "likely caused by human error in wrongly leaving a control switch off" and that there was a "lack of alarms to notify maintenance staff of an impending shutdown due to a low fuel situation," the article said.
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