New York Grid Operators Living Onsite to Keep Power Flowing
- Trailers now housing 37 control room operators, catering staff
- Volunteers could be separated from their families for weeks
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Workers charged with keeping the lights on in New York are now living on-site at upstate control centers to avoid the coronavirus.