Alert # 2 Exercise Paciic Wave

Is your facility or group located within the tsunami evacuation zone? If you don't know, go to http://www.pcc.govt.nz/A-Z-Services/Emergency-Management/Tsunami-Evacuation-Zones. If you are in an evacuation zone and there was a real tsunami warning today, would you be able to evacuate everyone safely? On foot? Or would you need extra assistance? Have you made arrangements for that extra assistance? If you would like further information, please contact the Porirua Emergency Management Office at emergencymanagement@pcc.govt.nz next week (from 14 November) and we will see what we can do to help.

Exercise "Pacific Wave" - Exercise terminated.

Exercise "Pacific Wave" - Exercise terminated. Thank you for your cooperation.

Exercise Pacific Wave - EXERCISE ONLY

EXERCISE ONLY

This exercise has started and the emergency management in full swing.
A State of Local Emergency has been declared and we have police, fire service and coastguard present.
The earthquake scenario was a magnitude 9 off Vanuatu. It has generated a wave that is expected to hit Porirua's shores at 16.24pm and be between 1-3 metres high.
All coastal communities have been evacuated.

EXERCISE ONLY

Exercise Pacific Wave - Thursday 10 November

We're taking part in Exercise Pacific Wave tomorrow, but even we don't know what time the tsunami exercise starts!

You may see or hear a test of our vehicle-mounted PA system - especially around Titahi Bay Intermediate and St Theresa's Schools.

If you are signed up to our Emergency Text Alerts, you should receive a test message, and those groups and businesses that are part of Readynet should also receive test alerts.

In the unlikely event of a real tsunami warning tomorrow, we'll say NO DUFF which means it's all for real. Don't ask me why we use that phrase - I reckon it's because we aren't allowed to use a different four letter word...

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The Porirua Emergency Management Office uses Twitter as one of the ways it sends out emergency alerts to the public. These can be received as SMS text messages.

Text alerts are free, but signing up will cost you four texts at your standard rate.

Unfortunately, if you're on 2Degrees, you won't be able to receive them. Sorry!

You will receive a few test messages a year and any other message will be a real alert.

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