{"id":145393,"date":"2026-02-25T23:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145393\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:06:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-new-nyc-oem-commissioner-takes-the-helm-and-tackles-this-weeks-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145393\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | New NYC OEM commissioner takes the helm and tackles this week\u2019s blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York City Office of Emergency Management has a new leader at the helm, taking the lead on the latest blizzard.<\/p>\n<p>Christina Farrell was appointed as the new commissioner about a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Farrell is no stranger to the department. She previously served as first deputy commissioner under former Commissioner Zach Iscol.<\/p>\n<p>She was part of two major snow events the city has seen so far this year, and was commissioner for the most recent blizzard.<\/p>\n<p>The department coordinates emergency responses and has tackled things like weather events, city-wide blackouts, and the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Farrell brings more than two decades of experience with emergency management.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been doing this for a long time, I think I know every inch of this agency. We will be here for New Yorkers. We\u2019re hoping that the snow is coming to an end. You know, have a little patience, Spring is coming,\u201d said Farrell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City Office of Emergency Management has a new leader at the helm, taking the lead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31286,40299,9,56,63,65,64,8555,55360,40488,49679,19641,30712,19639,34018],"class_list":{"0":"post-145393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-blizzard","9":"tag-emergency-management","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-snow","16":"tag-snow-aftermath","17":"tag-snow-cleanup","18":"tag-snow-plow","19":"tag-snow-removal","20":"tag-snowfall","21":"tag-snowplow","22":"tag-snowstorm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}