Jerome M. Hauer, who as the primary director of the mayor’s Workplace of Emergency Control oversaw New York Town’s reaction to floods, manhole explosions, mould outbreaks, development collapses, water major breaks, blackouts, hurricanes, sink holes, downed timber, terrorist threats, vermin and the unsure virtual affect on laptop networks of Y2K, the flip of the millennium, died on Aug. 11 at his house in Alexandria, Va. He used to be 71.

The reason used to be prostate most cancers, his spouse, Traci L. Hauer, stated.

Operating beneath Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani from 1996 to 2000, Mr. Hauer “gained fashionable cooperation” from different town companies and from the state and federal governments, the city historian Fred Siegel wrote in “The Prince of the Town: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Lifestyles,” printed in 2005. He used to be “a large, plain-spoken and an expert guy,” added Mr. Siegel, who died in Might.

Mr. Hauer evolved an early and complete reaction to the specter of a bioterrorism assault and to the proliferation of the West Nile virus within the town, rallying related companies to the reason. He later took what he had realized running for town and implemented it to emergency and chance control jobs for New York State and for the government, each right through and after main crises, together with the terrorist assault at the International Business Middle on Sep 11, 2001, the following anthrax danger and Typhoon Sandy in 2012.

“He used to be a unicorn, a in point of fact singular person, a person for crises in all seasons,” stated William J. Bratton, who as New York’s police commissioner labored with Mr. Brauer in town govt.