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Emergency Services
The 'Are You Prepared' Emergency Planning Guide is distributed throughout the district and region, and contains essential Civil Defence information.
Copies of the booklet are available from our front counter, 135 Manchester Street, Feilding.
Click on the icons below to view district information for each section.
Topical Links: Click here for the Ministry of Defence's 'Get Ready, Get Thru' campaign website. Click here to view the Ministry of Health influenza pandemic website. Click here to report an earthquake to the GeoNet website.
| Lest we forget the lessons of the February 2004 flood... BE PREPARED! |
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| Click on any of the photos to visit our flood gallery. |
Emergency Management
- Includes the statutory functions of Civil Defence, Rural Fire and Hazard
Response. Emergencies covered by the service range from earthquakes, floods,
rural fires through to hazardous spills.
- Civil Defence provides planning, training and public awareness programmes
designed to ensure that Council and the Manawatu District community can respond
quickly and effectively in the event of a civil emergency.
- The organisation consists predominately of volunteers attached to Community
Emergency Centres at Rangiwahia, Apiti, Kimbolton, Waituna West, Pohangina (3 Centres situated at Country Fayre in Pohangina Village, Highland Home and Awahou School), Halcombe, Sanson, Longburn, Rongotea, Himatangi Beach and Manfeild Park Events Centre in Feilding.
Emergency Management Committee
The Emergency Management Committee consists of representatives of the three main emergency services as well as Manawatu District Council representatives from Civil Defence, Rural Fire, and Hazardous Substances.
Their role is to plan the co-ordinated response to, and recovery from the aftermath of disaster.
Civil Defence Declaration
A person appointed for the purpose under Section 25 of the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002, may declare that a state of emergency exists in the area for which the person is appointed if at any time it appears to the person that an emergency has occurred or may occur within the area.
We provide emergency management services
To minimise risk to people and
property through effective emergency management and emergency services, before,
during and after an event.
How this service is provided
- Civil Defence helps ensure community safety through preparedness, sensible decision-making
and community support before, during and after an event
- Rural fire officers monitor and respond to all rural fire situations. Fulton Hogan are contracted to provide a rural fire fighting team
- Environmental Health Officers and a Dangerous Goods Officer respond to hazardous spillages
- Volunteers and other emergency services help Council meet its statutory Civil Defence requirements
Services provided
 Personal preparedness education activities at Manawatu Schools, approximately 40 days per year- Regular CD training sessions for council staff - approximately 12 per year and 12 training
sessions for volunteers per year
- Community Emergency Centres staffed by 76 volunteers
- Regular Public Information updates on Civil Defence through print and media advertising
- Rural fire campaigns conducted during the fire season. Maintaining public notice boards
- A 24-hour response to rural fire and hazardous spill via the 111-telephone service
- Rural fire officers monitoring and warning communities of local fire risk. The
issue of fire permits when the lighting of fires needs to be restricted.
- Appropriately trained and available rural fire fighting personnel
Customer service
The Emergency Management Officer can be contacted by phoning (06) 323-0000. For after hours calls, phone the same number.
Monitoring the service
Emergency Management is assessed through Manawatu District Council's Annual Plan performance targets.
Rural fire is audited by the National Rural Fire Authority.
Cost
The average ratepayer pays about $18 per year for Emergency Management. Charges are made to landowners
for rural fire call-outs and prosecutions can follow rural fires resulting from negligence. |
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