City ramping up effort

NEW YORK CITY is shipping off additional emergency response experts and FDNY staffers to assist victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

Mayor de Blasio announced Wednesday that 10 emergency managers and 64 members of the FDNY Incident Management Team were deployed to the waterlogged island, where most of the residents remain without power.

All told, 147 city employees have been sent to help. Some natives of Puerto Rico living in New York are personally organizing drives.

That includes American Airlines flight attendant Kassadra Del Valle, who has bought 15 generators and multiple cases of water from Costco.

The goods will be shipped on an American Airlines flight Thursday. The airline has offered to ship up to 300 pounds of supplies per employee on the flight into Puerto Rico.

But Del Valle’s family isn't sure what will happen once the plane lands.

“The airport is chaotic,” said Del Valle’s sister Jenyvette Vega, who moved to New York five years ago. “And there’s no gas, so even if it gets there, who is going to pick it up?”