Just over 24 hours after a campus-wide power outage affected one of Utah’s largest medical centers, Murray’s top fire official said the failure was likely caused by an issue with the power system at hospital.

Murray’s Intermountain Medical Center lost power for unknown reasons at about 11:15 a.m Thursday. Its backup generator failed shortly after, and full power wasn’t restored to the campus until 1 p.m., forcing the hospital to divert incoming ambulances and transfer some patients, including five babies and six laboring mothers.

Murray Fire Chief Joseph Mittelman said as far as the city is aware, the outage wasn’t caused by an issue with Murray City Power, which is the hospital’s energy provider.

Intermountain spokesperson Jess Gomez said he did not have a final report on the outage

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