Shotover Country
& Lake Hayes Estate
Your Emergency Community Response Group
Have you thought about a plan?
Help your friends, family and community get prepared for emergencies.
More Information
What is a “Community Response Group”
No one likes to think about the worst-case scenario but the better prepared we all are, the easier it will be for us to get through an emergency. With the massive AF8 earthquake now overdue, it’s important we all know what to do if something like that happens.
Shotover Country & Lake Hayes Estate has a local community response group (CRG). This residents group is working and training with Otago Civil Defence and Emergency Management (CDEM). If and when the CRG is stood up it will lead the community’s response.
Where is the main hub for our Community Response?
In a Civil Defence emergency the CRG welfare hub will be a place you can get accurate information and ask for and offer help. The hub will be at the Shotover Primary School unless the building is unsafe. If all communications are out the CRG will have contact with Civil Defence through VHF radio.
The group is currently looking for funding to buy a generator and other important emergency equipment.
At the welfare hub members of the CRG will collate the most up-to-date local information and send situation reports to CDEM in Queenstown. They will match up offers of help with people who need it and create a drop-in centre. If needed they will be able to set up tent accommodation.
1st Step
Register on the Information Database “Gets Ready”
2nd Step
Make a Plan
3rd Step
Assemble Emergency Items
4th Step
Connect with your Community & Neighbours
About being ready
In an emergency, we may be cut off without an airport or roads for up to 2 weeks or more. Figure out what supplies you need and make a plan to work out what you need to get through.
You probably have most of the things you need already. You don’t have to have them all in one place, but you might have to find them in a hurry and/or in the dark.
- Water for three days or more — make sure you have at least nine litres of water for every person. This will be enough for drinking and basic hygiene.
- Long-lasting food that doesn’t need cooking (unless you have a camping stove or gas barbecue) and food for babies and pets.
- Toilet paper and large plastic buckets for an emergency toilet.
- Work gloves and a properly-fitted P2 or N95 mask.
Have you thought about…
Do you have a grab bag?
Have grab bags ready for everyone in your family. A grab bag is a small bag with essential supplies.
Each bag should have:
- Walking shoes,
- Warm clothes,
- Raincoat and hat
- Water and snack food (remember babies and pets too)
- Hand sanitiser
- Portable phone charger
- Cash
- Copies of important documents and photo ID
- Remember any medications you might need and keep your first aid kit, mask or face covering, torch, radio and batteries somewhere you can grab them in a hurry.
- If you have special dietary needs, make sure you have the food you need in your grab bag too.
What is in your car
Plan ahead for what you will do if you are in your car when an emergency happens. A flood, snow storm or major traffic accident could leave you stranded in your vehicle for some time.
Keep essential emergency survival items in your car. Remember you could get caught out in extreme winter conditions
- Brush/ shovel
- Snow chains
- Windscreen scrapers
- Warm clothing.
- A pair of walking shoes,
- A waterproof jacket
- Essential medicines
- Snack food
- Water
- A phone charger lead
- Torch