The Adams administration mounted a full-throated defense before the City Council on Wednesday of its handling of the air quality crisis in early June, when blanket of soot-filled smog from Canadian…
before the City Council on Wednesday of its handling of the unhealthy air quality last month due to raging Canadian wildfires.
“It was the appropriate response based on the science and we trust the science,” Emergency Management commissioner Zach Iscol told the lawmakers at one point during the hearing. “I’m telling you that based on the forecasting abilities, we did everything that we should have done.” “What should we have done? Put out the fires?” Adams told the station, adding that the criticism came from “the same usual suspects.”
Iscol also attempted to argue that City Hall had attempted to notify the public through means other than the Big Apple’s newspapers, television channels and radio outlets, but acknowledged that those efforts failed to gain substantial attention.
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