{"id":48959,"date":"2022-12-27T07:34:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T12:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=48959"},"modified":"2022-12-27T07:34:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T12:34:58","slug":"27-dead-following-winter-storm-in-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/27-dead-following-winter-storm-in-buffalo\/","title":{"rendered":"27 Dead Following Winter Storm in Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, and Governor Kathy Hochul hold a storm press briefing (December 26, 2022)<\/p><\/div>\n

At least 27 people have died in Erie County following a winter storm<\/strong> that paralyzed a good portion of Western New York over the Christmas Holiday weekend.<\/p>\n

Erie County<\/strong> Executive Mark Poloncarz<\/strong> confirmed via Twitter of the 27 people who have died that 3 of the deaths were from an EMS Delay, 14 were from exposure, 3 were from shoveling or snow blowing cardiac events; 4 were from no heat; and 3 were those found in a vehicle. He said unfortunately he expects the number of deaths to still increase.<\/p>\n

Poloncarz said driving bans remain in effect for Buffalo and Lackawanna with the rest of Erie County under a travel advisory.<\/p>\n

The New York State Thruway<\/strong> remains closed from the Pennsylvania line to Exit 46 in Henrietta. The Thruway Authority<\/strong> was expecting to provide an update this morning on that situation.<\/p>\n

The National Weather Service in Buffalo<\/strong> said the four-day storm total at the Buffalo Airport was 50 inches of snow. The storm, which had blizzard conditions, left hundreds of motorists stranded and 100,000 without power over the weekend.<\/p>\n

President Joe Biden<\/strong> has approved a request by Governor Kathy Hochul<\/strong> for a federal declaration of emergency for Erie and Genesee Counties<\/strong>. The Emergency Declaration will provide immediate federal assistance to impacted counties to support ongoing response and recovery operations.<\/p>\n

Hochul also deployed an additional 220 National Guard<\/strong> soldiers to the Western New York region, bringing the total of deployments to approximately 430.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least 27 people have died in Erie County following a winter storm that paralyzed a good portion of Western New York over the Christmas Holiday weekend. Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz confirmed via Twitter of the 27 people who have died that 3 of the deaths were from an EMS Delay, 14 were from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":48960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[11195,12659,5677,1333,3336,10526,3684,1697,1698,2431],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Byron-Brown-Mark-Poloncarz-Hochul.jpg?fit=799%2C533&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-cJF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48961,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48959\/revisions\/48961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}