Rose Medical Power Outage

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June 7th, 2010 Denver Fire Department responded to a power outage at Rose Medical Center, with the back-up generator failing to kick on when full power was lost, and forced the hospital to evacuate critical care patients and other patients to other area hospitals. The back-up generator started smoking and was shut down, and checked by firefighters. The hospital also had an explosion in the medical laboratory and the ICU. This power outage was caused by a Xcel Energy sub-station that was damaged in an explosion which caused a power outage to over 31,00 customers in East Denver.

Denver Police Department & Denver Paramedics

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