{"id":44419,"date":"2010-08-27T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/27\/snake-turns-off-lights-in-ny-hospital\/"},"modified":"2010-08-27T05:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T05:23:00","slug":"snake-turns-off-lights-in-ny-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/27\/snake-turns-off-lights-in-ny-hospital.html","title":{"rendered":"Snake Turns Off Lights in NY Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A snake slithered into a switch box outside a New York hospital, where it met its maker and caused a 10-hour power outage, AP reports with information from Poughkeepsie Journal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Officials at Vassar Brothers Hospital in Poughkeepsie say backup generators kicked on Tuesday afternoon when a common-variety snake got into the switch box and disrupted the hospital’s main power supply. Workers found the dead snake inside the box.<\/p>\n

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Hospital officials say there were no patient care disruptions caused by the outage, which lasted from 3 pm Tuesday to 1 am Wednesday. Some emergency room cases had to be diverted to other hospitals.<\/p>\n

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While squirrels and other small animals have been known to get into electrical equipment and cause outages, a utility spokesperson says it’s the first time he’s heard of a snake doing it.<\/p>\n

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