LOS ANGELES — A succession of energy outages at a Los Angeles hospital prompted the evacuation of 28 sufferers in important situation to different hospitals early Tuesday, whereas 213 different sufferers have been moved to a different constructing within the medical heart, authorities mentioned.

The energy failure blacked out Adventist Health White Memorial’s foremost six-story constructing, disabling elevators, mentioned Fire Chief Kristin M. Crowley. More than 100 firefighters and quite a few ambulances have been dispatched to the ability east of downtown.

The constructing consists of OB-GYN and neonatal intensive care, Crowley mentioned.

“All patients are safe,” John Raffoul, the hospital president, mentioned at a press convention.

Fire personnel remained on the hospital throughout the day.

Mayor Karen Bass referred to as for an intensive examination of the incident.

“We must get to the bottom of what happened and ensure that lives are not put at risk in this way ever again,” Bass mentioned in a press release. “Many years ago, I worked at White Memorial in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. A power outage risks the lives of all of those babies - and also the rest of the patients in critical care whose lives depend on respirators, ventilators and other critical life-sustaining equipment.”

The hospital initially misplaced energy at 3 a.m. Monday after Tropical Storm Hilary dumped report rainfall on town, and backup turbines that have been speculated to final three days kicked in, Raffoul mentioned.

But a blackout was reported at 11:45 p.m. Monday and firefighters have been dispatched to evacuate sufferers, helping them down flights of stairs in lots of circumstances, the Fire Department mentioned.

“We don’t know the cause of the double failure that we had here … other than the fact that we had a major storm that hit us here in Southern California,” Raffoul mentioned.

Raffoul mentioned a brand new generator was on order.

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