Napa hospital, damaged in earthquake, rallies as patients flow in

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Cellar worker Adam Craig, 36, of Napa works to clear the rubble at the Kieu Hoang Winery, one of several in the area that were damaged by the earthquake. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

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Cellar workers work to clean up the Kieu Hoang Winery, one of several in the area that were damaged by the 6.0 temblor. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

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Vickie Katsubayashi looks at a red-tagged home near downtown Napa. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

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A home in Napa was damaged by Sunday’s 6.0-magnitude earthquake. (Alvin Jornada / EPA)

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A crack in the pavement cuts across a street in a neighborhood of Napa that was affected by Sunday’s quake. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

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Bay Area Home Depot employees join a volunteer cleanup effort in downtown Napa. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

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Bay Area Home Depot employees help with volunteer cleanup efforts in downtown Napa. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

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Four homes at Napa Valley Mobile Home Park in Napa were destroyed by a fire triggered by the 6.0-magnitude earthquake that struck early Sunday. Two other homes were badly charred by the fire, while many were knocked off their foundations by the temblor. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

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Karl Luchsinger recovers a child’s car seat from a vehicle after a carport collapsed in the Napa earthquake. (Josh Edelson / AFP Getty Images)

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Gin Betourne, 56, uses a candle for light after a 6.0 quake caused a power outage in her Napa, Calif., neighborhood. The quake damaged the chimney in the house she has lived in for six months. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

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Maria Hanks, 50, and her husband Brad, 53, sit in candlelight after spending much of the day cleaning up the damage around their house. They lost power after a 6.0 quake struck and it had still not come back on by nightfall on Sunday evening. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

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Cars sit under a carport at Charter Oaks Apartments in Napa that collapsed in Sunday’s earthquake. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

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The remains of one of four mobile homes destroyed by fire at Napa Valley Mobile Home Park in Napa after the earthquake. The community was left without water and power. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

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Phil Tessier of Napa helps Tim and Ann Whitlock move out of their home on Twin Oaks Drive after it was heavily damaged by the quake. About 100 people from their church, Grace Church of Napa, pitched in. “Who says you can’t move in six hours? It can be done,” Ann Whitlock said. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

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One of the mobile homes destroyed by fire at Napa Valley Mobile Home Park in Napa. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

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Scott Whitlock walks on a stretch of buckled sidewalk while helping his parents move out of their damaged home in Napa. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

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Dan Kavarian, chief building official for the city of Napa, walks around the downtown area red-tagging building that were deemed unsafe after a 6.0 earthquake hit the area early Sunday. The quake damaged several buildings and caused several injuries. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

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A 6.0 earthquake sent bricks falling from a Napa business onto a car early Sunday. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

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People gather in downtown Napa to view the damage to buildings from a 6.0-magnitude earthquake early Sunday. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

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A close-up view of damage to a building caused by a 6.0-magnitude earthquake early Sunday. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

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Dan Kavarian, chief building official for the city of Napa, posts a yellow tag allowing limited access on a building damaged in a 6.0-magnitude earthquake early Sunday. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

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Windows at the post office in downtown Napa were shattered in a 6.0-magnitude earthquake early Sunday. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

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Bricks that fell from a building in Napa caused substantial damage to a car parked next to it during a 6.0-magnitude earthquake early Sunday. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

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The post office in downtown Napa suffered damage to its brick walls and windows in a 6.0-magnitude earthquake early Sunday. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

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Gurbeer Singh cleans up fallen merchandise at a 7-Eleven store in American Canyon, Calif., after Sunday morning’s 6.0 earthquake. (Ben Margot / Associated Press)

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With spilled wine covering the floor, winemaker Tom Montgomery views damage caused by Sunday’s earthquake at B.R. Cohn Winery’s barrel storage facility in Napa, Calif. (Eric Risberg / Associated Press)

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Steve Brody inspects damage to his mobile home in Napa, Calif., after Sunday’s magnitude-6.0 earthquake. (Ben Margot / Associated Press)

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Bottles are strewn on the floor of the Bloom Hair Salon in Napa, Calif., after a magnitude-6.0 earthquake centered nearby. (Evan Wagstaff / Los Angeles Times)

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A home in Napa, Calif., that was badly damaged in the earthquake. (Evan Wagstaff / Los Angeles Times)

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A Napa, Calif., building housing a tasting room suffered significant damage in the earthquake. (Evan Wagstaff / Los Angeles Times)

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Broken bottles lie on the floor of an oil and vinegar store in Napa, Calif., after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake centered nearby. (Evan Wagstaff / Los Angeles Times)

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Napa County, Calif., firefighters spray foam on hot spots from a fire at a mobile home park in Napa after Sunday morning’s 6.0 earthquake. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)

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Jean Meehan looks over the damage to her JHM Stamp and Collectibles store in Napa, Calif., after Sunday morning’s 6.0 earthquake. (Eric Risberg / Associated Press)

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A building in Napa, Calif., is badly damaged after a 6.0 earthquake. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)

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Police officers exit a damaged building in Napa, Calif., after Sunday morning’s 6.0 earthquake. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)

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A woman looks at the damaged windows of the main post office in Napa, Calif., after Sunday morning’s earthquake. (Eric Risberg / Associated Press)

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The top corner of a building is exposed after Sunday morning’s 6.0 earthquake centered near Napa, Calif. (Eric Risberg / Associated Press)

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Bricks and fallen rubble cover a car parked near the old courthouse in Napa, Calif., after Sunday morning’s 6.0 quake. (Eric Risberg / Associated Press)

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Bricks can be seen in the street after a building was damaged during Sunday morning’s earthquake centered near Napa, Calif. (Ellen Knickmeyer / Associated Press)

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Residents survey the damage to a historic building in downtown Napa after a 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay Area at 3:20 a.m. (Peter DaSilva / EPA)

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Store owners stand near broken glass in downtown Napa, Calif., after a 6.0 earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay Area early Sunday. (Peter DaSilva / EPA)

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Residents survey the damage to buildings in downtown Napa, Calif., after Sunday morning’s 6.0 quake. (Peter DaSilva / EPA)

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A man sweeps broken glass from store windows in Napa, Calif., after Sunday morning’s 6.0 earthquake. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)

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A resident checks out damage to a building at 3rd and Brown streets in Napa, Calif., after Sunday’s 6.0 quake. (Lyall Davenport / Associated Press)

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A CHP officer directs traffic away from a buckled section of California 12 after Sunday’s quake, which was centered near Napa. (Peter DaSilva / EPA)

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Napa, Calif., residents in bathrobes check out damage on their street after Sunday’s quake. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)

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Caltrans crews assess damage to a California 37 overpass in Vallejo after Sunday morning’s 6.0 quake. (Lee Romney / Los Angeles Times)

By Lee Romney

Aug. 24, 2014 2:23 PM PT

Reporting from Napa, Calif.

At Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a Catholic nonprofit hospital founded in 1958, there was a sense of pride at the efficiency and commitment of everyone who sprang into action after a magnitude-6.0 earthquake rocked much of the San Francisco Bay Area early Sunday.

The Napa, Calif., hospital had suffered minor damage and had to rely on emergency generators for about three hours.

But hospital Chief Executive Walt Mickens said everyone -- including first responders shuttling the wounded in by ambulance, staff members who flooded into work, and engineers who got the facility fully up and running -- reacted “in an extraordinary fashion to a very significant event.”

Security guards were keeping members of the media about 40 feet away from the facility and its parking lot, but as Mickens spoke at a briefing, triage tents erected behind the hospital were visible.

Mickens said about 120 people had come through the emergency room with earthquake-related injuries as of noon, “mostly bumps, bruises and cuts -- lots of lacerations.”

He said the first wave of injuries came when residents got up and walked on glass or other debris. A second wave followed as people began the hard work of cleaning up.

Most patients were being treated and released, he said.

A child injured by a falling fireplace was the only patient transferred out -- to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, according to hospital officials. Two other patients who arrived during the initial wave had suffered heart attacks, he said. And three others were about to undergo orthopedic surgery, two for broken hips and one for a broken ankle.

He said they were “expected to do well. ... The hospital is functioning well. Our operating rooms are up and running.”

Earlier Sunday, people came to check on loved ones at the hospital, and other patients were briefly treated and sent on their way.

Sherry Abblett was here for her grown daughter. At the time of the quake, the younger woman was asleep at home beside a floor-to-ceiling bedroom mirror, which fell on her. It was so heavy she could not get out from under it without help. Her foot soon turned black and blue.

“It turns out she had a fractured hip,” Abblett told a bank of cameras gathered outside the hospital.

“I’m tired,” she said when asked how she was doing. “Everything is out of our cupboards. Bookshelves have fallen across my office doorway. ... We’re cleaning up.”

Cassie Cornett stopped by the facility with badly rug-burned knees. She said neither she nor her mother had realized the shaking was an earthquake.

“We thought it was a bomb, “ she said as her young son, Reef, stood nearby with his bicycle. “We thought it was the end.”

Cornett said that as the quake continued, she “rolled off the bed, covered my head, got on my knees and yelled out” for Reef. Then she crawled to his room, leaving her knees raw.

“I was in mama mode,” she said.

Reef was fast asleep.

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