260 hospital patients had to be evacuated out of a New York hospital on Monday, October 29th, due to Superstorm Sandy. The hospital's lower floors were beginning to flood and between 7:00 and 7:45 p.m. the lights went out. Some patients had to be carried down 15 levels in order to evacuate because the elevators weren't working. The hospital staff didn't expect to have to evacuate patients so they were not prepared. Newborn babies had to be evacuated and four were put on respirators because they couldn't breathe on their own. The hospital had few lights on, so the staff had to work with only flashlights, pumping air into babies lungs. By 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, the evacuation was over and the patients were transported to other hospitals.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/30/health/sandy-hospital/index.html?hpt=he_c1
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