The town received 100 of the 300 pieces of snow-removal equipment loaded to Long Island towns from the New York state Department of Transportation, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York City and Westchester County, said Vanessa Baird-Streeter, Suffolk County spokeswoman.

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In addition to extended shifts among police officers, hundreds of National Guard members and state and Metropolitan Transportation Authority police would help respond to the threat, New York Gov. George Pataki said in a statement.

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