Sutter Medical Center’s main hospital in Sacramento, Calif., was forced to postpone or relocate 50 surgeries after it lost back-up power due to flooding, according to an article on the Sacramento Bee website.
Underground flooding caused a malfunction in one of the center’s backup generators, hospital officials said.
The facility's emergency power switchboard is stored in an underground utility vault on L street and experienced electrical failure due to water damage. That impaired the power lines that run between the switchboard and the facility’s backup generator but regular power remained on.
The backup generators remained operational for other buildings on the midtown medical campus.
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