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Developing regional disaster centers

February 17, 2013 5:42 PM By DAN JANISON dan.janison@newsday.com

Work crews pump out flooded office buildings at

Photo credit: John Roca | Work crews pump out flooded office buildings at Water Street in Lower Manhattan in the wake of superstorm Sandy. (Nov. 2, 2012)

Dan Janison

Melville. N.Y. Tuesday January 26, 2010. Daniel Janison,

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Dan Janison has been a reporter at Newsday for 10

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Coming to a location near you: a politically unsexy but potentially vital state storage center from which emergency equipment could be quickly mobilized -- hopefully in time for the next Long Island disaster.

The state's Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services reports that it is developing, in partnership with the Port Authority, a so-called Disaster Logistics Center near Kennedy...

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