Canfield council seeks answers to generator failure

CANFIELD — City officials expressed concerns over generators that failed in a recent power outage.

City Manager Joe Warino and city attorney Mark Fortunato talked about the need to figure out what went wrong when the backup generators for city hall and the police department did not kick on during outages in Canfield Feb. 4.

“We don’t have an answer for why they didn’t work when we needed them,” Warino said at tonight’s council session. “It’s unacceptable to all of us.”

He noted that 911 service, landline and cellphone services were out for a time during the outage. Warino added city workers were able to manually start the city hall generator.

“I would empower council to take all steps necessary to get that fixed as soon as possible. That’s a delicate legal issue to have a system that we are aware” has a problem, Fortunato said.

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