Living on the edge
Do you ever stop to think before you flick a light switch or turn the tap that nothing will happen? We all tend to take for granted the electricity which turns darkness into light, preserves our food in our refrigerators and assures that we have a cool refreshing drink on a hot day. We too have taken such gifts for granted until, that is, a recent Friday noon when suddenly all the hospital campuses were plunged into darkness. It was almost as if time suddenly stopped as everything came to an immediate halt! We ran to the generator building from which smoke was belching. The generator attendant first on the scene grabbed a bucket of sand and threw it on the source of the smoke. When the smoke cleared we saw that a piston had crashed through the side of the motor spilling gallons of oil all over the ground.
Download the full issue here: September, 2007 – Hôpital Sacré Coeur News
