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There was a Co-op City power failure on Thursday, 8/30/12.

An onsite electrical plant at Co-op City, located in Baychester, Bronx, New York, failed early Thursday morning shortly after midnight, causing a four-hour power outage in the northern Bronx complex of 35 high-rises and 236 townhouses; according to an OEM spokesperson.

The development produces its own electricity and the power outage was limited to only the Co-op City, Baychester, Bronx area.

FDNY rescued 27 people from elevators, prying open doors to remove them, the spokesman added.

Seven people needed power for life-sustaining equipment, such as oxygen generators, and were treated by EMS, authorities said.

Four people were treated at area hospital for minor injuries.

Con-Ed, acting as a back-up source of power, restored electricity to the complex about 3:20 a.m, according to a Con-Ed spokesman.

Though Co-op City supplies its own power with an onsite gas-turbine cogeneration plant, "Con Ed is the backup. While Co-op City tried to figure out what happened to their power generation, Con Ed supplied Co-op City with power."

Con Ed spokesperson D. Joy Faber said "We're there in support capacity until they repair the problems on their side, they’ll be back on their own power supply."

Co-op City produces its own power using a combined-cycle gas-turbine cogeneration plant with two 13-megawatt combustion gas turbine generators and heat recovery steam generators and one 14-megawatt steam turbine and generator replacement, according to the project's engineering consultant, the Manhattan firm Parsons Brinckerhoff.

David Stone, RiveryBay's chief engineer, said that one generator had been restored and the other was expected to be operational by Thursday afternoon. "It's a limited number of components that may have failed," he said. "We still have to investigate."

Built between 1968 and 1973 as Mitchell-Lama housing, Co-op City – with over 50,000 residents, eight parking garages, 15 houses of worship, 12 schools, several day care centers, four basketball courts, five baseball diamonds and an adjacent shopping center with a 13-screen movie theater, department stores and a supermarket – is the largest single residential development in the country, according to the 2005 PBS documentary, A Walk Through The Bronx.

It was not immediately clear what caused the Co-op City power outage.

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