REMARKS
Council Member Krishnan emphasizes the growing threat of brush fires in NYC parks
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Council Member Krishnan highlights the increasing urgency of mitigating brush and wildfire threats in New York City's parks, drawing parallels to recent devastating wildfires in other parts of the country.
- Discusses the impact of climate change on wildfire prevalence
- Emphasizes that wildfires are no longer a foreign concept for NYC
- Stresses the need for solutions to this new and urgent challenge
Shekar Krishnan
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Today's hearing will examine the issue, which I'm sad to say needs to be addressed and is becoming only increasingly urgent.
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And that is on how we can mitigate the threat of brush and wildfires from occurring in our New York City's parks.
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We've unfortunately seen the incredible devastation brought most recently by wildfires in the Los Angeles area and the increasing prevalence of wildfires overall in more areas of the country largely due to the effects of the rapidly changing climate.
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And bear in mind, as we're sadly seeing in LA, it's not just limited, to the forests and and trees that are being destroyed, but also people's lives upended, displaced overnight from their homes.
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Their homes burnt down.
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Truly emergency situations.
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I'm sure that even though all New Yorkers sympathize with the plight of all who've had to endure the threat and experience of wildfires, as very few of us would have thought that wildfires would be something that we, living in the so called concrete jungle, would have ever experienced.
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But now we are faced with having to find solutions to a new and increasingly urgent challenge.
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Shockingly, the idea that wildfires can occur in our backyard is no longer a foreign concept, but an actual lived experience for many in the city and the extended region.