OUR PURPOSE
To assist EMO and local authorities provide a coordinated and integrated approach to the way significant risks and hazards are managed in the Wānaka region across the 4R’s.
Reduction
Readiness
Response
Recovery
Aftermath of Emergency
After a large-scale emergency, such as a major flooding event, emergency services will be dealing with the most urgent call outs, so the people you live nearest to will be your most immediate and ongoing source of support. We will all have to pitch in and help each other.
We know that communities naturally come together to connect, share their stories about their experience, find out information about what’s happening locally, offer skills, resources and assistance to those who need it and look for assistance.
Emergency Hubs
Community Emergency Hubs have been pre-identified, community-led locations that can support a community to coordinate their efforts to help each other during and after an emergency.
Civil Defence authorities will open and run Welfare Centres in the community for those in need.
Community Emergency Hubs will be opened and operated by people within the community, not official authorities, when there is a desire for the community to help itself.