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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)

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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