A power outage impacted the south end of Lakewood on this afternoon, leaving more than 500 customers without electricity, according to JCP&L.
The outage also affected Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus. The hospital is currently operating on generator power, with only minimal lighting and no air conditioning available at this time, OEM officials told TLS.
JCP&L says crews are working to restore service and estimate power will be back by approximately 3:30 PM.
If a hospital doesn’t have the capacity to have working backup generators, how can they get away with that?!
Actually if you read the article you would have noted that they do have generators running. Its highly likely they are well within the requirements of supplying power during brief emergencies such as this. You many want to check and see what your states requirements are.
Shame on the hospital.They should be protecting their patients. Their backup generator is on and handles the life safety equipment. But they don’t include the air conditioning in life safety. My family member is in the hospital now and is losing herself mentally. She’s unable to drink due to her condition and the lack of air conditioning is causing her physical and mental pain. Not only that, the hospital seems to think that in order to conserve the air in the hospital they should not allow visitors. So that just worsens the situation.
No problem. Hospital fees will triple as they install more and much larger generators. Then you will complain and call the hospital president a thief for raising fees.
How can a utility get away with so many frequent, massive outages? Summer comes every year and instead of getting ahead of the issue, the state makes things worse by mandating and encouraging more usage without providing infrastructure or allowing building more power plants.
In the real, no-monopoly, government-not-choosing-favorites world, this level of incompetence would be punished by people choosing providers that could reliably provide.
Instead of admitting their complete incompetence and stopping their meddling, the sane government that approved the massive rate hikes now wants to give us back a fraction of the increase.
I don’t know how to hold JCP&L accountable for their incompetence, but the way to do that to the Murphy administration is by voting them out and not voting in people with similar views.
I think a good place to start is to hire a lawyer to sue jcp&l. I would love to see how they react when they get served papers from the township.
I’m not a lawyer, but that sounds like a great idea. Maybe even two lawsuits, one from the Township and another as a class action lawsuit…
Because Lakewood Askanus has controlled all the boards and have damaged the infrastructure to an extreme. Permits have been issued for growth at extremely high levels. The infrastructure doesn’t exist for the electric grid, nor does it exist for the sewer and waste need of the township. Lakewood has brought onto itself, but waants to blame others.