Brooks-Powers questions whether City Hall knew about the shooting
Brooks-Powers asks whether NYCEM or City Hall was made aware that the July 25 incident involved a shooting with multiple injuries or deaths. Farrell says one-alarm fires are not routinely deployed to unless in a sensitive location, and Brooks-Powers describes a disconnect between the mayor's press conference and the on-the-ground response felt by residents.
Now, when the 911 call came in and the initial response happened,
Was NYSOM or City Hall made aware that it was not only a fire, but that there was a shooting that took place with multiple people injured or killed?
So one alarm fires, unless, like I said at the beginning, unless it's a sensitive location, we don't routinely...
Deploy to those.
You know, our watch command is 24-7.
This was a Saturday, right?
were working, they will definitely give a, what we call a monitor page to myself and other members on call of the executive team so we know what's going on.
But the actual initial response and what was going on with PD and fire, we were not part of that.
Yeah, because I was wondering the disconnect because earlier in the day, I believe the mayor had a press conference and he acknowledged what was happening in Rockaway.
But on the ground, we didn't feel the response.
Obviously, FDNY and PD were there.
But in terms of like an effort to address the.
The crisis in that moment on the ground at the magnitude that was felt by the people impacted, that was not present.