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Lack of communication about safe locations during flood events
0:24:54
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Council Member Ariola criticizes the lack of clear communication about safe locations for residents during flood events. She emphasizes that even as an elected official, she doesn't have a list of designated safe places to share with her constituents.
- Ariola points out that she and her colleagues don't have a list of precincts and firehouses being used as safe havens during floods
- She asks for specific information about which precincts and firehouses are currently identified as safe locations
- Deputy Commissioner Heather Roiter explains that NYCEM coordinates with police and fire departments during catastrophic events
- Roiter suggests that they can communicate today about potential safe places in communities, but doesn't provide specific locations
Joann Ariola
0:24:54
But the communication of those places to get to those places I mean, I'm an elected official, and I don't have a list of those places, and I could not communicate that to my my constituents.
0:25:04
And and I don't know if my colleagues I've been joined by, council member Oswald Felice, but I don't know if my colleagues get a list of those places.
0:25:11
What what are the precincts and fire houses that are being used currently during floods as safe havens for people who need to be relocated?
Heather Roiter
0:25:23
So I we will work with police and fire in catastrophic events and scenarios, to, coordinate with them during a flash flood event and how their facilities could be part of an a suite of options of where high ground is in a safe place.
0:25:39
But be you shouldn't wait for the storm.
0:25:41
We can also communicate that today where any
Joann Ariola
0:25:43
place in your community might be
Heather Roiter
0:25:43
a resource for you.
0:25:43
No.
0:25:43
But what what
Joann Ariola
0:25:47
what precincts and and fire houses are are already identified?