Month: October 2019

Emergency Preparedness: Building a Better Backup Generator

Published on Oct 25, 2019 by Disaster preparation, emergency management, Emergency Preparedness, Generators, Uncategorizedin Disaster preparation, emergency management, Emergency Preparedness, Generators, Uncategorized

Liberty House Condominium's newly upgraded emergency generator.

Liberty House Condominium, a 239-unit, 27-story tower over looking the Hudson River escaped Hurricane Sandy relatively unscathed. The building didn't lose power like the rest of downtown Manhattan (Battery Park City happens to be on the Brooklyn power grid), and...

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