Crews Check On Seniors Who Decided To Shelter In Place Amid Downtown SMUD Outage

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Day 3 of the powerfulness outage successful downtown Sacramento forced thousands to question structure oregon structure successful spot arsenic temperatures drop.

CBS13 followed residents who made the determination to enactment and learned what was done erstwhile it conscionable wasn’t harmless to bash so.

“We admit it’s going to beryllium acold tonight, truthful we wanted to springiness them the enactment to spell to these hotels,” said Erik Krause with SMUD connected Thursday.

As Sacramento Regional Transit buses pulled up, determination was disorder wrong the Wong Center.

“I person 2 residents here, truthful what is the plan?” 1 idiosyncratic asked.

Translators were brought successful to help. Many of the much than 200 who unrecorded successful this affordable lodging analyzable talk Cantonese oregon Mandarin and are seniors.

One pistillate and her hubby person lived determination a decennary aft having immigrated from China.

“My hubby takes a batch of medicine, truthful helium has to eat,” she said.

She was cheerful, showing america her proviso of nutrient and however they are getting by fixed the powerfulness outage.

“Water is OK, toilet is OK. I tin enactment the h2o successful here, I tin marque the blistery water,” she said.

But not everyone was excited astir surviving successful the acheronian aft backup generators went down.

“We person to enactment small lights everywhere, truthful she does not trip,” Bryan Dorrell said of his fiance’s mother, who lives there.

He was acrophobic astir information and says not everyone is prepared.

“I was astatine Macy’s the different time and determination was a nonmigratory atom cooking successful beforehand of the store to usage their outlet,” helium said.

Elevators are not working, which means the stairs are the lone mode up and down, and occurrence alarms were retired of bid truthful the City of Sacramento stepped in.

“The metropolis is bringing a substance motortruck [to the Wong Center] to refuel the generator which volition get exigency lighting and each occurrence extortion systems backmost up,” Sacramento Fire Chief Gary Loesch said.

By noon Thursday, the determination was made to person residents structure successful spot if they privation to.

“We are checking connected radical who are non-ambulatory and seeing if they request to beryllium transported by occurrence section and taken to a warming halfway oregon a hospital,” said Loesch.

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The occurrence section volition beryllium monitoring the concern present until the powerfulness is expected to beryllium restored, which volition beryllium Friday morning.