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Rising Above the Storm: How Drones Are Revolutionizing NYC’s Disaster Response 12 Years After Hurricane Sandy
- New York City has developed a disaster response team using drones, as drones can assess the extent of damage from natural disasters, warn people of potential flooding, breach storm-damaged buildings, and aid water rescues as well as being put into regular use during the summer swimming season to reach out to those stranded in the water.
- In an effort to assess the viability of the use of drones, the New York City government conducted a joint exercise on Staten Island to demonstrate the envisaged service.
- James Rolon, citywide interagency coordinator, witnessed the demonstration and backed the use of drones as a critical tool in managing the response to disasters.
- Drones are capable of breaching a building's windows for emergency management personnel to gain access to a storm-damaged building where workers may be trapped, without endangering the lives of emergency responders.
- Drones can be particularly useful in the response to coastal storms, which can affect multiple large areas of the city.
- Emergency management personnel also can deploy drones to create digital maps showing what the city's communities look like before a major storm hits, which can be compared with post-storm maps of the same areas to assess the extent of storm damage.
- The NYCEM team showed how responders could use a drone to provide aid to victims who had been pulled out to sea by floodwaters.
- The Big Apple has devised a Citywide Incident Management System that delineates the command structure in the response to certain types of incidents, and drones are an invaluable asset for operations such as those.
- When it comes to disaster response in the city, UAVs provide a picture of what's going on, giving the decision-makers the ability to assess whatever's occurred and the destruction that's been wrought.
- Emergency responders also are trained in the use of UAVs to help facilitate communications during disaster-response incidents and to assess damages post-disaster.
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