Jerome M. Hauer, who as the primary director of the mayor’s Workplace of Emergency Administration oversaw New York Metropolis’s response to floods, manhole explosions, mould outbreaks, constructing collapses, water fundamental breaks, blackouts, hurricanes, sink holes, downed bushes, terrorist threats, vermin and the unsure digital impression on laptop networks of Y2K, the flip of the millennium, died on Aug. 11 at his residence in Alexandria, Va. He was 71.
The trigger was prostate most cancers, his spouse, Traci L. Hauer, mentioned.
Working underneath Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani from 1996 to 2000, Mr. Hauer “received widespread cooperation” from different metropolis businesses and from the state and federal governments, the city historian Fred Siegel wrote in “The Prince of the Metropolis: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life,” revealed in 2005. He was “an enormous, plain-spoken and educated man,” added Mr. Siegel, who died in Might.
Mr. Hauer developed an early and complete response to the specter of a bioterrorism assault and to the proliferation of the West Nile virus within the metropolis, rallying related businesses to the trigger. He later took what he had discovered working for town and utilized it to emergency and threat administration jobs for New York State and for the federal authorities, each throughout and after main crises, together with the terrorist assault on the World Commerce Heart on Sept. 11, 2001, the next anthrax menace and Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
“He was a unicorn, a very singular particular person, a person for crises in all seasons,” mentioned William J. Bratton, who as New York’s police commissioner labored with Mr. Hauer in metropolis authorities.
