Blizzard 2022: Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz updates WNY on 'very, very bad night'
Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz addressed county residents in a briefing Saturday morning after a "very, very bad night" due to a blizzard striking the City of Buffalo and its surrounding towns. Emergency crews spent much of Friday overnight into Saturday digging each other out, and two fatalities were reported in Cheektowaga in which EMTs could not reach the people in crisis. The hardest-hit areas of the blizzard had no access to medical personnel. Video courtesy of Erie County.
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In addition to two fatalities overnight Friday in Cheektowaga, another person was found frozen to death in Buffalo, Poloncarz said.
Blowing snow from the powerful winds have caused significant drifts in many areas that are higher than the amount of snow that has actually fallen.
After a “very rough night” in the Town of Tonawanda, Town Supervisor Joseph H. Emminger said…
Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said city first responders know about the baby and have been trying to figure out a way to get there.
The National Weather Service replaced the blizzard warning with a winter storm warning for Erie, Genesee, Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties.
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Hochul described the blizzard conditions in Buffalo as "life-threatening" and noted the two deaths that occurred when medical personnel were unable to reach emergency situations.
After the final trip to the firehouse at about 8 a.m., the crash truck got stuck – meeting the same fate as two-thirds of Erie County emergency vehicles that embarked overnight Friday.
