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Alternative cooling centers and emergency response measures

0:53:09

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Council Member Schulman inquires about using hospitals as cooling centers. Christina Farrell explains that while hospitals have been considered in extreme situations, the city also employs other measures such as cooling buses in emergencies.

Hospitals with auditoriums have been considered for extreme heat emergencies
MTA cooling buses can be deployed for localized incidents
Emergency management is open to new partnerships for cooling centers

Lynn C. Schulman

0:53:09

Have you has any thought been given to using hospitals?

0:53:12

Sometimes they have auditoriums and things like that.

Christina Farrell

0:53:16

Sometimes when we've had an extreme heat emergency, we have talked to them about, you know, if there is our facilities.

0:53:24

I will also say if there is because just because we have a heat emergency doesn't mean we don't have fires, don't have water main breaks Right.

0:53:31

Hurricanes, all the things that can happen.

0:53:33

But we will also bring out we'll work with the MTA just like we bring warming buses to sites in the winter.

0:53:38

We can also bring buses that can be used as cooling buses.

0:53:41

So if you had an incident in your district at a specific building and people had to be out, we would also work to get cooling buses there for that point in time.

0:53:52

But again, we're always looking for new partners, new people that we can put on the map that people can avail themselves of.

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