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NYCEM's technological innovations and recovery efforts
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Commissioner Iscol highlights NYCEM's use of innovative technologies and strategies to enhance emergency preparedness, response, and recovery efforts in New York City.
- Deployed drones to monitor shark activity on city beaches and developed a new shark protocol
- Initiated a pilot program using robotic devices to inspect infrastructure in hazardous conditions
- Exploring the use of AI tools to enhance preparedness, response, and recovery efforts
- Coordinating the city's recovery working group, focusing on heat resiliency and flood protection
- Facilitating access to FEMA hazard mitigation assistance funding for risk reduction projects
Zachary Iscol
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We are also innovators in leveraging the latest technologies to enhance emergency preparedness and response.
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In collaboration with the drone task force, NISM deployed drones to monitor shark activity on city beaches during the summer, culminating in a new shark protocol.
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We initiated a pilot program to use robotic devices to inspect infrastructure in hazardous conditions such as compromised buildings.
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NISM is also exploring how art generative artificial intelligence tools can enhance preparedness, response, and recovery efforts.
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NISM continues to coordinate the city's recovery working group, which focuses on new priorities including heat resiliency strategies and temporary flood protection measures.
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In collaboration with the Mayor's Office of Housing Recovery Operations, NISOM facilitated a post disaster hurricane recovery focus group to identify strategies for rapid post disaster housing support.
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NYSM connects city partners to FEMA hazard mitigation assistance funding, a critical federal grant program focused on risk reduction, and provides the technical assistance needed to successfully apply for these programs.
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This has resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in grant awards to support projects that make our city better prepared for future disasters.
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And this is just a fraction of the work that New York City's Emergency Managers do.