Thank you to those who made time to come and join us at the Community Emergency Hub Opening on Sunday 20th October at Pegasus Community Centre. We hope you learned how it will help you and your family if a disaster strikes.
Special thanks to all the amazing volunteers who gave up their Sunday to help out and demonstrate how the Hub works.
A HUGE thank you to the emergency services who did the same and shared what they do and how they help our community when we need them: Waimakariri Civil Defence Emergency Management Team, FENZ (Woodend Volunteer Fire Brigade), NZRT12, North Canterbury Neighbourhood Support, Coastguard North Canterbury, and Waikuku Beach Surf Lifesaving Club.
Thank you to Alexandra and volunteers plus the wonderful bakers in our community for their efforts doing the bake sale - all proceeds went to PRGI Pegasus Community Watch - which we are very grateful of.
Thank you to The Flowerhouse Pegasus for donating a stunning bouquet of flowers we raffled off to a lucky winner.
Congratulations to Roger Rule for guessing how many jetplanes in the jar - you will be a favourite with the grandkids!
Thanks also to Woodend-Sefton Community Board members Shona Powell, Rhonda Mather, Ian Fong, Brent Cairns and Philip Redmond (Brent and Philip are both also Waimakariri District Council Councilors) for attending and showing their support.
Learn more Community Emergency Hubs
Below is some information on what a Community Hub is. You can also read more here on the Civil Defence Website.
What is the purpose of a Community Hub?
In a disaster, official services will be stretched to the point where they must prioritise the most urgent call-outs. We will all have to pitch in and help each other.
When you have checked on your household and neighbours, you and your family can go to your local Community Emergency Hub to:
Ask for and offer help by sharing skills and resources among your community
Share and find information about what's happening in your suburb
Start organising the clean-up of your community
Be in the company of others facing a similar situation
What will I find at a Community Emergency Hub?
The Hub is run by people like you in your local community without official assistance. Each Hub has a guide for how to coordinate the sharing of information, skills and resources that exist in your community.
There is a small amount of equipment, including a VHF radio in case the phone and internet networks aren't working. The radio will allow communities to communicate with the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) run by your local council.
There are no supplies, food, water or blankets stored at Hubs. Our communities are full of beds with blankets on them and pantries with food in them to get through the first week after an emergency. Your community can gather the things it needs at the time by working together.
How is a Community Emergency Hub run?
Community members run a Hub without official assistance - it's essentially a place for neighbours to help each other in a coordinated way. Each Hub has a Hub Guide which explains how to organise an emergency response and describes the different roles needed.
WREMO works with communities to practise how they would respond to an earthquake and help the people they live nearest to get through even some of the most challenging issues.
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