An EMP attack is designed to knock out electronics. Electrical equipment will be fine. If you don’t know the difference between electrical and electronic start googling.
Absolutely untrue, FRiend. Anything that can hold an electrical charge is at risk. .
When the US tested a HEMP burst in the South Pacific, It caused power outages a thousand miles away, in Hawaii. It melted some telephones, even. Those phones were not electronic. They took a current anyway. They melted.