Emergency officials will be in New York for two weeks
ILLINOIS (AP) -- Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has sent 13 emergency manager and two employees from the Illinois Emergency Management Agency to New York City to help with the clean up after Hurricane Sandy.
The Governor says that they will help coordinate efforts at the city's emergency operations center.
The team will be gone for two week and return on Nov. 16th.
This is the first deployment from Illinois as part the nationwide state to state mutual aid system.
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