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| NY Prisons Affected by Blackout |
| By USA Today |
| Published: 08/18/2003 |
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The power outage that struck the northeast blacked out much of upstate New York Thursday afternoon, forcing prisons, airports and hospitals to rely on emergency backup power. Power was still off in most areas Friday morning. Outages from New York City to Lake George to Buffalo began shortly after 4 p.m. Power began to be restored to parts of upstate around 4:30 p.m., but large swaths of the state remained without power. Every prison except one in New York State reported a loss of power and switched over to backup generators, said state Department of Correctional Services spokesman James Flateau. Several people were trapped in elevators in the Empire State Plaza in Albany, but most had been freed by 5 p.m. Thursday, Albany fire officials said. Stoll said state troopers and National Guard personnel had been dispatched to key locations across the state. The Pataki aide said she did not know how many officers were involved. Shortly before 5:30 p.m. yesterday, New York Gov. George Pataki declared a state of emergency according to Pataki spokeswoman Lisa Dewald Stoll. Utilities recorded a real-time electricity load of 24,811 megawatts shortly after 4 p.m., about 6,000 megawatts below New York's recorded peak usages, which typically fall in late afternoon on hot summer days. |
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