New York Hurricane Sandy (DR-4085)

Queens: New York Hurricane Sandy (DR-4085)
Photo date: November 15, 2012
Photographer: FEMA / Christopher Mardorf
Photo location: Queens NY
Categories: Recovery, Response, Hurricane/Tropical Storm
Alexey Audeev, Deputy Director of International Cooperation Department EMERCOM of Russian,Eric Phillipson, FEMA Planning Liaison, and Alexander Romanov, Director of Federal-State Russian Airmobile Rescue Service, Moscow (l-r), review a disaster map being printed on a FEMA color plotter during a tour FEMA's DR-4085 Joint Field Office (JFO) in Queens, New York. Following the onslaught of Hurricane Sandy, FEMA coordinates its work in New York at the JFO in Queens and supports state, local, tribal and volunteer agencies in their disaster response activities. FEMA also welcomes the cooperation and assistance of international experts such as the Russian Airmobile Rescue Service who are familiar with disaster response techniques needed to assist communities in need of relief. Photo by Christopher Mardorf / FEMA.

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