Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation in New York

The community around the city is prone to a variety of disasters. The city can be hit at any time by storms, fires, epidemics, terrorist attacks, severe weather conditions such as storms, blizzards, snow storms, heat wave, and even by riots. With the population of the city being as it is and the number of people who can be found at a given place at one single moment, if any of the above mentioned events happens, then the number of casualties can be in the hundreds to tens of thousands going by the past disaster figures.