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Community Response to Emergencies. 

WREMO WPB Community Ready LPCommunities are full of skilled and resourceful people, businesses, groups, and facilities that could help solve many of the challenges that your community will face after an emergency. 

Everyone will have to pitch in and help each other, skilled people you need in an emergency are already in your community. 

  • During disasters, councils and emergency services aren't the only ones responding. 
  • Communities have many of the skills and resources needed to solve problems and help each other. 
  • Community Emergency Hubs help facilitate people working together to solve problems locally while coordinating with councils on bigger problems. 

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After a disaster, solve problems close to home first

  • Your first priority is to do what you can to make you and your households safe
  • If you can help other households or need help with yours, go out and check with your neighbours. Then check the surrounding streets to see what can be done. Many problems can be solved at this level. 
  • Once you have checked on the people around you, go to your Hub. 

Then go to your local Community Emergency Hub

  • Other community groups may also be organising in your area, and the official response may come in, if needed. Once your Hub is opened, work with those who come to make sure everyone in need is reached, the workload is shared, and the overall response is efficient and coordinated.
  • People working at the Hub have no legal powers to take resources from anyone or force anyone to do anything. All laws still apply in an emergency. 

Your local Emergency Operations Centre will support your activities

  • If help is needed within your community that the community can't provide themselves, let the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) know. They may be able to get help from a community near you or from city resources. Likewise, if you have people or resources that could help outside your community, let the EOC know.

Community Resilience Plans

Some of our communities have worked together to identify the local resources they have available to try to solve these challenges. You can see whether your community has done some planning by checking out the Community Resilience Plans in our Ready Communities section.
 
In communities that have not yet been through that planning process, these are prompts and questions that may help you find solutions. If you would like to help with identifying the resources of your community, contact us.

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