NYC Has New Emergency Command Center

[DoYouEverWonder]

December 5, 2006

NEW YORK -- The city Tuesday unveiled its new high-tech emergency command center, replacing the one that was destroyed when the World Trade Center towers collapsed on Sept. 11.

The four-story building in Brooklyn, across the East River from Lower Manhattan, is the first permanent home for the Office of Emergency Management since the terrorist attack.

"It's one of those agencies that you hope they don't have a lot to do, but you're awfully glad that they work very hard getting ready in case they do," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.

The new center features a command desk where police, fire and other operations are monitored and coordinated, a 15-foot video wall, and work stations that would enable city, state and federal officials to work together during a crisis. It also has backup generators and enough food and water to last several days.

Hours after the Trade Center towers fell, a nearby 47-story building that was hit by flaming debris also collapsed, destroying the emergency command center that was commonly referred to as "the bunker" even though it was on the 23rd floor.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-emergency-bunker,0,2223046.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines


At least Bloomie didn't put it back in the new WTC7.

[MadMaddie]

1. I sincerely hope that they have a serious backup plan if something

happens to that building....it seems that the planning for major projects like this are always lacking...

But it's great that they have combined the communications...

[mcscajun]

2. They do, it's in the last part of the linked article.

The city has another emergency operations center at an undisclosed location in case the center unveiled Tuesday is damaged by a disaster or attack.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-emergency-bunker,0,2223046.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

[MadMaddie]

3. Cool....if anything has been learned it's that.....there always must

be a backup plan...