Power cut at Europe's largest hospital
Despite its emergency power supply, the hospital was without electricity for around 3 hours.
According to initial findings, a short circuit in a power distributor caused the power cut of almost three hours between 2 and 5 in the morning. The fire brigade had to move several patients. The emergency generator did start, but because of a defective component in a distributor it could not feed electricity into the building’s network.
The Charité has its own emergency power supply and is theoretically independent of the Berlin power grid. However, because of a defective component, the emergency generators could not supply the hospital with electricity. “Last night, however, there was a fault originating in the internal technical infrastructure,” the spokesperson said.
The emergency processes seem to have worked well. In a real #blackout, however, the resources to deal with such disruptions would probably not be available.
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