The 633-bed hospital experienced a power surge when emergency generators activated following the black-out.
Water has knocked out regular and emergency generators, but portable generators were put on board late last week.
Gonzalez said that passengers were never without electricity, thanks to emergency generators, and have ample food and water on board.
She said that passengers were never without electricity, thanks to emergency generators, and have ample food and water on board.
Italian Coast Guard officials said emergency generators were keeping the ship's control room illuminated and communications equipment such as radios running.
"Provided the emergency generators worked and had enough power, they would have been able to return to port under their own power, but much slower, " said Andrew O.
Emergency generators at the plant became inoperable after a tsunami topped a seawall at the coastal facility and flooded the emergency equipment that was located in a low-lying area.
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Supermarket chains across the region reported record sales of bottled water and paper towels, while stores across the states of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey sold out of emergency generators.
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This country has an estimated 220 gigawatts of what you might call amateur power: emergency generators, industrial fuel cells and other user-owned power plants, compared with 1, 000 or so gigawatts of central station capacity.
Several data centers, including several operated by Amazon in northern Virginia, have faced large fines because their emergency generators were installed without permits, and others because the diesel generators have contributed significant air pollution during testing.
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Carnival President and CEO Gerry Cahill said the probe will focus on the prevention, detection and suppression of fires, engine room redundancies, and what additional hotel facilities might be provided and might run off the emergency generators.
On Tuesday, Carnival announced it was conducting "a comprehensive review" of all 23 of its ships after the fire last month that crippled Triumph in the Gulf of Mexico.. Carnival President and CEO Gerry Cahill said the investigation will focus on the prevention, detection and suppression of fires, engine room redundancies, and what additional hotel facilities might be provided and might run off the emergency generators.
Utilities have bought more than 1, 500 pieces of equipment, from emergency diesel generators to sump pumps and satellite phones, Pollock said, and the industry is setting up two regional response centers in Memphis and Phoenix.
In Santiago, some hotels were setting up generators to provide emergency power.
Local hotels supplied with generators have been acting as emergency centres.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency "has responded fantastically, " providing generators and ice within hours of the state's request, he said.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has dispatched a fleet of trucks stuffed with generators, bottled water and similar supplies to staging areas in North Carolina, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
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Experts from the National Transportation Safety Board, which has been investigating the accident, suspect that a cargo of more than 100 oxygen generators -- which provide oxygen in case of a cabin emergency -- contributed to the fire.
In New Jersey, bills also have been introduced to require gas stations to run generators within 24 hours of a widespread power outage during a state of emergency.
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