Tutukaka Coast NORTHLAND Community Response Plan contents... Key Hazards ..........................................3 Plan ..................................................20 Major Storms ...............................................................3 Plan area ........................................................................20 Flooding ........................................................................3 Plan activation process ............................................20 Tsunami .........................................................................4 Oil Spills .........................................................................4 Roles and responsibilities ...................21 Rural Fire ........................................................................4 Civil Defence Household Emergency Plan ................5 Community Centres .............................21 Emergency Survival Kit .......................6 Emergency Contacts ...........................22 Getaway Kit ..................................................................6 Stay in touch ................................................................6 For further information ........................23 Tsunami information ............................7-8 Tsunami information ............................9 Before, during & after ...............................................9 What zone are you in ................................................10 Tsunami evacuation maps Tutukaka Coast............................................................11 Matapouri. Sandys Bay .............................................12 Ngunguru .....................................................................13 Floods Before, during and after ...........................................14 Community Assets and Hazrds map ...................15 Severe Storms Before and during ......................................................16 After a storm, tornadoes and landslides ............17 Rural Fire Before and during ......................................................18 After a fire, fire seasons & smoke alarms ............19 2 get ready... The key hazards in Tutukaka Coast • Major Storms • Oil Spills • Flooding • Rural Fire • Tsunami Major storms Major storms affect wide areas and can be accompanied by strong winds, heavy rain, thunder, lightning, tornadoes and rough seas. They can cause damage to property and infrastructure, affect crops and livestock, disrupt essential services, and cause coastal inundation. Severe weather watches and warnings are issued by the MetService and available through the broadcast media, by email alerts, and online at www.metservice.co.nz Flooding Floods can cause injury and loss of life, damage to property Floods are usually caused by continuous heavy rain or and infrastructure, loss of stock, and contamination of water thunderstorms but can also result from tsunami and coastal and land. storm inundation. A flood becomes dangerous if: • the water is very deep or travelling very fast • the floods have risen very quickly • the floodwater contains debris, such as trees and sheets of corrugated iron. Getting ready before a flood strikes will help reduce damage to your home and business and help you survive. 3 get ready... Tsunami New Zealand’s entire coast is at risk of tsunami. A tsunami Know the natural can violently flood coastlines, causing devastating property warning signs damage, injuries and loss of life. If you are at the coast and experience any of the following, move immediately A tsunami is a natural phenomenon consisting of a series of to the nearest high ground, or as far waves generated when a large volume of water in the sea, inland as you can: or in a lake, is rapidly displaced. A tsunami can be caused by • Feel a strong earthquake that makes it hard large submarine or coastal earthquakes; underwater land- slides which may be triggered by an earthquake or volcanic to stand up, or a weak rolling earthquake activity; large coastal cliff or lakeside landslides; or volcanic that lasts a minute or more; eruptions beneath or near the sea. • See a sudden rise or fall in sea level; or Major storms • Hear loud and unusual noises from the sea. Be Safe! Know your tsunami evacuation zones See the maps on page 11-13 Oil Spills Oil Spills are a possibility due to the large shipping lane that depending on the severity of the incident. Oils spills and runs just outside the Poor Knights Maritime Reserve area. In other industrial threats are generally not responded to by Civil Flooding the event of an oil spill, any issues will be dealt with locally by Defence Personnel. the Northland Regional Council and/or Maritime New Zealand, NRC Hotline 0800 504 639 Rural fire Although there are many benefits to living in the country, rural property owners face a higher risk of fire than city dwellers. If a fire starts it may not be detected as quickly and emergency services take longer to respond because of greater travel distances. For information on fire danger, fire season status and requirements for fire permits visit www.checkitsalright.nz 4 get ready... CREATE AND PRACTICE Household Emergency Plan 5 get ready... CREATE Emergency Survival Kit In most emergencies you should be able to stay in your home. Plan to be able to look after yourself and your Everyone should have a packed getaway household for at least three days or more. Assemble and kit in an easily accessible place at home maintain your emergency survival items for your home as and at work which includes: well as a portable getaway kit in case you have to leave in • Torch and radio with spare batteries a hurry. You should also have essential emergency items in • Any special needs such as hearing aids and your workplace and in your car. spare batteries, glasses or mobility aids • Emergency water and easy-to-carry food Emergency Survival Items rations such as energy bars and dried foods. • First aid kit and essential medicines Torch with spare batteries or a Toilet paper and large self-charging torch rubbish bags for your • Essential items for infants or young children emergency toilet such as formula and food, nappies and a Radio with spare batteries favourite toy Face and dust masks Wind and waterproof clothing, • Change of clothes (wind/waterproof sun hats and strong outdoor shoes clothing and strong outdoor shoes) First aid kit and essential • Toiletries – towel, soap, toothbrush, medicines sanitary items, toilet paper Blankets or sleeping bags Blankets or sleeping bags • • Face and dust masks Pet supplies • Pet supplies. HOW TO Alerts to your phone Stay in touch Two alerting platforms are used by Northland Civil Defence (and other official agencies) to send alerts about RADIO STATIONS WEBSITES severe weather, tsunami or other Newstalk ZB emergencies. Log on to one of the following 1026AM & 1215AM websites for more information The Hits The Red Cross Hazard App 96.0FM www.nrc.govt.nz/civildefence Emergency Mobile Alerts More FM Both options are free to users although www.facebook.com/civildefencenorthland 91.6FM smartphones need to be of certain Radio Live capability to be able to receive them. www.geonet.org.nz/tsunami 90.6FM We recommend that if possible, people www.prh.gov/ptwc/ National Radio take advantage of both. 837AM, 101.1FM, 104.3FM, 104.4FM www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard Coast To find out more, visit: www.nrc.govt.nz/cdalert 900AM 6 get thru... Tsunami sirens Northland Civil Defence will issue a tsunami warning - and trigger sirens - after Evacuation methods receiving an official tsunami warning from the Ministry Civil Defence warnings to this area of Civil Defence and will be by the following methods: Emergency Management National Warning System. • Tsunami sirens • Warnings via radio • P.A. systems on emergency service vehicles • Local procedures. e.g. phone trees Tsunami warnings What to do when you hear a Warning messages and signals about a possible tsunami siren can come from several sources – natural, official or unofficial. Tsunami sirens and their strobe lights are just one part of a range of formal and informal warning systems, any one of Natural warnings which can alert people to a tsunami. For a local source tsunami which could arrive in minutes, there won’t be time for an official warning. It is The sirens and lights are a strong signal to seek further important to recognise the natural warning signs (see information. page 4) and act quickly. When there is a tsunami warning the siren will sound Official warnings intermittently. The strobe light will flicker throughout the Official warnings are only possible for distant and event, from beginning to end. regional source tsunami. Official warnings are disseminated by the Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management to the national media, local authorities and other key response agencies. Your local Tsunami siren do’s and don’ts council may also issue warnings through local media, siren and other local arrangements. Unofficial or informal warnings Tsunami sirens don’t necessarily mean you need to evacuate the You may receive warnings from friends, other members area right away or even at all. of the public, international media and from the internet. Verify the warning only if you can do so quickly. If official They do mean you need to find out what the level of threat is. warnings are available, trust their message over informal warnings. 7 get thru... Tsunami Siren at Tutukaka Marina Tsunami events in past years have shown that Tutukaka marina and the entrance to the marina can be particularly affected.