Current:Home > StocksNew Yorkers are warned from the skies about impending danger from storms as city deploys drones -NextLevel Wealth Academy
New Yorkers are warned from the skies about impending danger from storms as city deploys drones
View
Date:2025-04-19 08:34:30
NEW YORK (AP) — Gone is the bullhorn. Instead, New York City emergency management officials have turned high-tech, using drones to warn residents about potential threatening weather.
On Tuesday, with a buzzing sound in the background, a drone equipped with a loudspeaker flew over homes warning people who live in basement or ground-floor apartments about impending heavy rains.
“Be prepared to leave your location,” said the voice from the sky in footage released by the city’s emergency management agency. “If flooding occurs, do not hesitate.”
About five teams with multiple drones each were deployed to specific neighborhoods prone to flooding. Zach Iscol, the city’s emergency management commissioner, said the messages were being relayed in multiple languages. They were expected to continue until the weather impacted the drone flights.
Flash floods have been deadly for New Yorkers living in basement apartments, which can quickly fill up in a deluge. Eleven people drowned in such homes in 2011 amid rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.
The drones are in addition to other forms of emergency messaging, including social media, text alerts and a system that reaches more than 2,000 community-based organizations throughout the city that serve senior citizens, people with disabilities and other groups.
“You know, we live in a bubble, and we have to meet people where they are in notifications so they can be prepared,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said at a press briefing on Tuesday.
Adams is a self-described “tech geek” whose administration has tapped drone technology to monitor large gatherings as well as to search for sharks on beaches. Under his watch, the city’s police department also briefly toyed with using a robot to patrol the Times Square subway station, and it has sometimes deployed a robotic dog to dangerous scenes, including the Manhattan parking garage that collapsed in 2023.
veryGood! (97)
Related
- Pregnant Kylie Kelce Shares Hilarious Question Her Daughter Asked Jason Kelce Amid Rising Fame
- Unfortunate. That describes Joel Embiid injury, games played rule, and NBA awards mess
- The 3 people killed when a small plane crashed into a Clearwater mobile home have been identified, police say
- New cancer cases to increase 77% by 2050, WHO estimates
- Jamie Foxx reps say actor was hit in face by a glass at birthday dinner, needed stitches
- Far-right convoy protesting migrant crisis nears southern border
- At least 46 were killed in Chile as forest fires move into densely populated areas
- Man extradited from Sweden to face obstruction charges in arson case targeting Jewish organizations
- B.A. Parker is learning the banjo
- Grammys Mistakenly Name Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice's Barbie World As Best Rap Song Winner
Ranking
- Moving abroad can be expensive: These 5 countries will 'pay' you to move there
- About 1,000 manatees piled together in a Florida park, setting a breathtaking record
- She spent 2 years hiking across the US and her journey ends soon. Meet Briana DeSanctis.
- The 2024 Grammy Awards are here; SZA, Phoebe Bridgers and Victoria Monét lead the nominations
- Spooky or not? Some Choa Chu Kang residents say community garden resembles cemetery
- The New America’s Team: How the Chiefs have become the new ‘it team’ in professional sports
- Deion Sanders becomes 'Professor Prime': What he said in first class teaching at Colorado
- Abortion access on the ballot in 2024
Recommendation
Paula Abdul settles lawsuit with former 'So You Think You Can Dance' co
Who Is Kelly Osbourne's Masked Date at the 2024 Grammys? Why This Scary Look Actually Makes Perfect Sense
Edmonton Oilers winning streak, scoring race among things to watch as NHL season resumes
Goose found in flight control of medical helicopter that crashed in Oklahoma, killing 3
Small twin
Italian mafia boss who escaped maximum security prison using bed sheets last year is captured on French island
'It sucks getting old': Jon Lester on Red Sox, Cubs and his future Hall of Fame prospects
Biden projected to win South Carolina's 2024 Democratic primary. Here's what to know.