WASHINGTON (1010 WINS) -- President Joe Biden approved emergency declarations for New York and New Jersey after Ida took a deadly toll on the states, the White House announced late Thursday night.
"Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that an emergency exists in the State of New York and ordered Federal assistance to supplement State, tribal, and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from the remnants of Hurricane Ida beginning on September 1, 2021, and continuing," reads the New York declaration. The New Jersey declaration is similarly worded.
"The President’s action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures," the declarations continued.
At least 46 deaths were reported in New York and in surrounding areas, with at least 23 confirmed in New Jersey, as record rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida sent the area into a state of emergency Thursday.
The declarations are intended "to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the counties of Bronx, Dutchess, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam, Queens, Richmond, Rockland, Suffolk, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester."
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