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. Have a getaway kit in Magic Talk (96.6FM) case you must leave in a hurry. ManiototoBurn (769AM) Remember pets or livestock, include Newstalk ZB (1044AM) them in your emergency planning. Radio NZ National (101.4FM & 810AM For pandemics, follow the official Freeview Channel 50) instructions from the Ministry of Health. Radio Dunedin (1305AM) Keep your car ready: Smart phone applications: Plan ahead for what you will do if you Red Cross ‘Hazards’ app are in your car when a disaster strikes. My Little Local In some emergencies you may be MetService stranded in your vehicle for some time. A flood, snow storm or major Web and Social Media: traffic accident could make it www.otagocdem.govt.nz impossible to proceed. facebook.com/DnEmergency Consider having essential emergency facebook.com/OtagoCDEM items in your car and keep enough twitter.com/DnEmergency fuel in your car. twitter.com/OtagoCDEM Assist vulnerable people in your family Dunedin City Council: Community Guide to Emergencies or community: Telephone: 03 477 4000 If you or a family member or www.dunedin.govt.nz neighbour have a disability or any Strath Taieri special requirement that may affect Hyde, Middlemarch, Sutton your ability to cope in a disaster, develop a support plan. Developed by the Strath Taieri 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 Storms and Snow Landslide Fire neighbours, existing community Floods are Dunedin’s most An earthquake is a Major storms are almost The term landslide Fires can be started from groups, faith-based organisa- frequent hazard in terms sudden, rapid shaking of always as a result of low describes many vertical many natural causes tions and volunteer groups such of losses and declared the earth caused by rock pressure systems and/or horizontal land including lightning strikes as Neighbourhood Support. civil defence emergencies. breaking and shifting (depressions). movements down a slope and high winds causing Floods can cause injury beneath the earth’s Storms have a wide range and most are triggered by powerlines to arc, and No one knows a community and loss of life, damage to surface. They are usually of impacts. heavy or prolonged floods and earthquakes better than the people who property and infrastructure, generated by ruptures Winter storms often mean rainfall, snowmelt, earth- causing electrical shorts. live and work in it, and this is loss of stock, and contami- along faults (fractures snow impacting high quake shaking, and gravi- Low rainfall and drought why the community has come nation of water and land. within the earth’s crust) country areas closing ty, or construction and as- can also increase the together and developed a where rock moves on roads and isolating sociated land disturbance number of rural fires community response guide. Types of flooding either side of the fault communities. or clearance. started, as can human •River Floods: continuous causing a release of Thunderstorms are fast Many hilly areas of action, whether planned, It is more important than ever to heavy rain causing river energy. moving and can be very Dunedin are susceptible deliberate, malicious, or know your neighbours, to look levels to rise and over- Sometimes earthquakes intense. They are usually to landslides. Landslides accidental. out for and support each other. top banks or potentially can trigger other natural short lived and bring can move slowly over Rural property owners face Neighbourhood Support is there breach stopbanks. hazards such as landslides, lightning and thunder, extended periods of time a higher risk of wildfire than to help you connect to your •Flash Floods: lots of rain fires and tsunami. heavy rain, damaging or relatively rapidly. city dwellers. If a fire starts, community. in a short time causing hailstorms and potentially it may not be detected as flooding in the streets from What to do tornadoes. What to do quickly, and emergency blocked or overflowing Prepare a household A tornado is a narrow, Prepare a household services take longer to Dunedin City Council storm water drains. emergency plan. violently rotating column emergency plan. respond due to the www.dunedin.govt.nz Fix, fasten and don’t of air extending downward Find out what the risk is of greater travel distances. What to do forget! Secure heavy to the ground from the a landslide in your area Smoke from fires Emergency Management Check with the Dunedin objects inside your home. base of the thunderstorm. and what you can do to encroaching on urban or Otago City Council to see if your If you are inside when the They have extremely reduce that risk. residential areas can pose www.otagocdem.govt.nz property is at risk from shaking starts, move no high-speed damaging If you learn or suspect a a health hazard. flooding. more than a few steps to winds usually along a landslide is occurring or Neighbourhood Support Prepare a household a safe place. relatively narrow path. about to occur in your What to do www.neighbourhoodsupport. emergency plan. Drop, cover, and hold. area, evacuate Prepare a household co.nz Stay informed (radio, Expect aftershocks. What to do immediately. emergency plan including Facebook, Twitter). Stay informed Inform neighbours as they an escape plan for your Strath Taieri Keep drains and gutters EQC (radio, Facebook, Twitter). may not be aware of the house. Install smoke and Community Response Group clear and move stock to www.eqc.govt.nz/ Secure outdoor furniture, potential hazard. fire alarms and test them www.otagocdem.govt.nz/ higher ground if necessary. be-prepared trampolines etc. Contact the Dunedin City regularly. districts/dunedin Stay indoors, with doors Council and request them Get Down, Get Low, and windows closed. to assess the potential Get Out. Once out, stay Happens.nz Follow MetService for the danger. out - never go back inside. Information to help you to latest weather forecasts Stay away from landslide Call 111 and ask for ‘Fire’ prepare for emergencies and updates. areas. immediately from a safe www.happens.nz www.metservice.com location. .