that s exactly it. we re out here making sure everyone else can have a great time in force in a secure area and working hand in hand with our partners here. we couldn t do it without sanitation and fire department here with us. let s go to you, roger, at the fire department. i mean, your members absolutely phenomenal work this week in the bronx. we applaud you for what you did. and tonight, a great night. what are you working on? we can t get rigs into this area. so our members are on foot surveying the area and investigating alarms by foot and bringing units in when necessary with pd s help. and when it s all over, you and your people, the new york strongest have to put it all together again. right now we have 246 sanitation workers ready to go. 46 officers. you want to talk equipment, we got 44 rear loader collection trucks and 30 mechanical brooms, 58 guys with back hoes.
storm that comes once a decade. and, in fact, the economic experts in the city of atlanta, as we pointed out, back the mayor up on that and say that s exactly right. that is the economic strategy to take, especially in these very difficult economic times. the drawback is, though, it s going to take you a while to dig out of this. now the city of atlanta says it is doing the very best it can, referring to this e-mail that i got, i just want to point out, here s what they got out on the streets. 11 spreaders, eight graders, 15 loaders, six back hoes and 271 miles of roads have been plowed and treated in the last 18 hours. not bad. there are 1600 miles of the street in the city of atlanta. so they still have a way to go. the good news is priority roads are open. it s still treacherous to get out. martin, you make an interesting point. the difference between the criticism that new york administration came under from that last storm versus this is that new york never made the