Crime & Safety
Camco Health Services Center Power Restored
Back-up generators have the Woodbury Turnersville Road facility back up and running.
Electricity has been restored at the Camden County Health Services Center-Ann A. Mullen Building, in Blackwood, following Thursday evening's lightning strike.
About 150 of the facility's 450 patients were evacuated when the building's power was knocked out by the lightning strike, which occurred around 6:35 p.m.
Those patients were moved back to the center's inpatient behavioral health-care services wing after breakfast this morning, according to Camden County Director of Public Affairs Joyce Gabriel, following their roughly 12-hour stay in the nearby Camden County Emergency Training Center.
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"Everybody is back in," she said.
Officials were planning as of around 9:30 p.m. Thurday to move the facility's remaining 300 patients to Ann A. Mullen Middle School, in Erial, overnight, but that was later deemed unnecessary.
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The facility will run on "full service" generators for several weeks while transformers hit by the lightning strike are repaired, Gabriel said.
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