Backup Generator Fails; NYU Medical Center Evacuated

An entire hospital evacuated because the main power went off, followed by the backup generator failing. Let me repeat that. The backup GENERATOR failed. Not, perhaps surprisingly, the backup GENERATORS, plural. Because, gee, why would a hospital need any sort of redundancy in something as trivial as electricity?

Generator redundancy is clearly such a wacky notion that Bellvue Hospital was also losing backup generator power when the story was written.

Gah.