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How to get ready and stay informed How to get ready: Stay informed: Prepare your family and household. Get together to develop and Radio frequencies: practice your emergency plan. More FM (97.4FM) Assemble and maintain emergency The Hits (89.4FM) survival items. Radio Live (96.6FM) Have a getaway kit in case you must OAR FM (105.4FM) leave in a hurry. Newstalk ZB (1044AM) Remember your pets. Radio NZ National (101.4FM & 810AM) If you have pets or livestock, include Radio Dunedin (95.4FM, 106.7FM & them in your emergency planning. 1305AM) Keep your car ready: Television: Plan ahead for what you will do if you Southern Television are in your car when a disaster strikes. (Freeview Channel 39) In some emergencies you may be stranded in your vehicle for some Smart phone applications: time. A flood, snow storm or major Red Cross ‘Hazards’ app traffic accident could make it My Little Local impossible to proceed. MetService Consider having essential emergency items in your car and keep enough Web and Social Media: fuel in your car. www.otagocdem.govt.nz facebook.com/DnEmergency Assist vulnerable people in your family facebook.com/OtagoCDEM Community Guide to Emergencies or community: twitter.com/DnEmergency If you or a family member or twitter.com/OtagoCDEM neighbour have a disability or any Southern Coastal Dunedin special requirement that may affect Dunedin City Council: Waldronville to Kuri Bush your ability to cope in a disaster, Telephone: 03 477 4000 develop a support plan. www.dunedin.govt.nz Developed by the Southern Coastal Community Response Group and the Saddle Hill Community Board with support from Emergency Management Otago Get connected with those around you... IF LIFE OR PROPERTY IS THREATENED, ALWAYS DIAL 111 Name_________________________ Phone Number ___________________ Name_________________________ Phone Number ___________________ Name_________________________ Phone Number ___________________ Hazards in your area Know your neighbours When an emergency strikes it is the community who are the first responders. Help for those in need comes mostly from Flood Earthquake Tsunami Landslide Fire neighbours, existing community Floods are Dunedin’s most An earthquake is a A tsunami is a series of The term landslide de- Fires can be started from groups, faith-based organisa- frequent hazard in terms sudden, rapid shaking of waves generated when scribes many vertical and/ many natural causes tions and volunteer groups such of losses and declared the earth caused by rock a large volume of water or horizontal land including lightning strikes as Neighbourhood Support. civil defence emergencies. breaking and shifting in the sea, or in a lake is movements down a slope and high winds causing Floods can cause injury beneath the earth’s rapidly displaced. and most are triggered by powerlines to arc, and No one knows a community and loss of life, damage to surface. They are usually Tsunami can be triggered heavy or prolonged floods and earthquakes better than the people who property and infrastructure, generated by ruptures by large submarine or rainfall, snowmelt, earth- causing electrical shorts. live and work in it, and this is loss of stock, and contami- along faults (fractures coastal earthquakes, un- quake shaking, and gravi- Low rainfall and drought why the community has come nation of water and land. within the earth’s crust) derwater landslides, large ty, or construction and as- can also increase the together and developed a where rock moves on coastal cliff or lakeside sociated land disturbance number of rural fires community response guide. Types of flooding either side of the fault landslides or underwater or clearance. started, as can human •River Floods: continuous causing a release of volcanic eruptions. Many hilly areas of action, whether planned, It is more important than ever to heavy rain causing river energy. Dunedin are susceptible deliberate, malicious, or know your neighbours, to look levels to rise and over- Sometimes earthquakes What to do to landslides. Landslides accidental. out for and support each other. top banks or potentially can trigger other natural Move immediately to can move slowly over Rural property owners face Neighbourhood Support is there breach stopbanks. hazards such as landslides, higher ground or as far extended periods of time a higher risk of wildfire than to help you connect to your •Flash Floods: lots of rain fires and tsunami. inland as you can if you or relatively rapidly. city dwellers. If a fire starts, community. in a short time causing are at the coast or by a it may not be detected as flooding in the streets from What to do lake and experience any What to do quickly, and emergency blocked or overflowing Prepare a household of the following: Prepare a household services take longer to Dunedin City Council storm water drains. emergency plan. An earthquake that lasts emergency plan. respond due to the www.dunedin.govt.nz Fix, fasten and don’t longer than a minute or is Find out what the risk is of greater travel distances. What to do forget! Secure heavy strong enough to knock a landslide in your area Smoke from fires Emergency Management Check with the Dunedin objects inside your home. you off your feet, and/or and what you can do to encroaching on urban or Otago City Council to see if your If you are inside when the you see a sudden rise or reduce that risk. residential areas can pose www.otagocdem.govt.nz property is at risk from shaking starts, move no fall in sea level and hear If you learn or suspect a a health hazard. flooding. more than a few steps to loud or unusual noises from landslide is occurring or Neighbourhood Support Prepare a household a safe place. the sea. about to occur in your What to do www.neighbourhoodsupport. emergency plan. Drop, cover, and hold. Remember if it’s long or area, evacuate Prepare a household co.nz Stay informed (radio, Expect aftershocks. strong get gone. immediately. emergency plan including Facebook, Twitter). Inform neighbours as they an escape plan for your Southern Coastal Dunedin Keep drains and gutters EQC may not be aware of the house. Community Response Group clear and move stock to www.eqc.govt.nz/ potential hazard. Install smoke and fire www.otagocdem.govt.nz/ higher ground if necessary. be-prepared Contact the Dunedin City alarms and test them districts/dunedin Council and request them regularly. to assess the potential Get Down, Get Low, Happens.nz danger. Get Out. Once out, stay Information to help you Stay away from landslide out - never go back inside. to prepare for emergencies areas. Call 111 and ask for ‘Fire’ www.happens.nz immediately from a safe location. .