Brooks-Powers asks Farrell to walk through July 25 response timeline

Council member?

Thank you, Chair.

And just echoing the Chair, definitely want to thank you, Commissioner, for being so responsive to my text messages throughout the Northeaster.

So, yeah.

So, as I mentioned before, on July 25th, there was...

An alleged double homicide and fire in Far Rockaway, Queens.

Surrounding homes were evacuated and families were displaced.

Can you walk us through July 25th from the 911 call moment to the moment the last displaced family had a bed that night?

Just wanting to know, like, for example, what time NISM was actually activated and notified and what resources arrived in response to that.

Sure.

So we were made aware of the fire but did not initially respond, is my understanding.

Then as the situation evolved, as many of these situations do, later that evening there was outreach to us, I believe, initiated by your office and others in the community.

And so we did send one of our season's citywide incident coordinators out there, you know, to get an update on what the situation was.

You know, once he got situational awareness, it was indeed.

You know he determined that the Red Cross should be there It's my understanding that the Red Cross was dispatched earlier since it was an active crime scene and there were other things going on They were not

able to access the property earlier in the day, but Red Cross did come that evening and they Did begin to register?

Folks there were I think the power had been cut and some other things so they registered some people in surrounding properties there were also a couple of residents that I understand had

relocated temporarily to Staten Island or other places and so they tracked them down and saw what assistance they needed and got people into hotels that evening

Thank you for that.