Jerome M. Hauer, who as the primary director of the Mayor’s Place of job of Emergency Control oversaw New York Town’s reaction to floods, manhole explosions, mildew outbreaks, development collapses, water major breaks, blackouts, hurricanes, sink holes, downed timber, terrorist threats, vermin and the unsure virtual have an effect on on pc 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, mentioned.

Operating underneath Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani from 1996 to 2000, Mr. Hauer “received in style cooperation” from different town businesses 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” (2005). He used to be “a large, plain-spoken and a professional guy,” added Mr. Siegel, who died in Would possibly.

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 businesses to the reason. He later took what he had discovered running for the town and implemented it to emergency and chance control jobs for New York State and for the government, each throughout and after main crises — together with the terrorist assault at the Global Industry Middle on Sep 11, 2001, the following anthrax risk and Storm Sandy in 2012.

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