NEW ZEALAND FIRE SERVICE
Transalpine Fire Region
DATE
VERSION
Recovery Plan
Sitrep
005/2011
SUBJECT:
REGION UPDATE
TO
TransEoc, IMT, Black Watch,
Southern Comcen, NHQ,
Transalpine RMT, All
regions. quake1@fire.org.nz
ISSUED BY
22/03/2011
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Roel Dijkstra - Recovery Manager
Introduction:
Following a 6.3 earthquake on 22 February and substantial damage to the
Transalpine region head quarters buildings and facilities, the region's functions were
carried out on site for a period of time setting up and manning the Transalpine EOC,
as well as dealing with the large incident. Help was gratefully received early on
enabling the Region staff to withdraw after a week from both arenas and
concentrate on setting up the running of the region's BAU and recovery plan.
Actioned:
1. 66% of the outstanding 3811 incidents in SMS have now been signed off and
closed. It is anticipated that the remainder will be completed by mid April.
2. The Community Risk Reduction group have scoped a plan to encompass their
items of the Recovery Plan. Areas of responsibility have been allocated and
prioritised. Several avenues of support are being explored as to keep the
NZFS profile high in the community.
3. Kim Peterson has returned to Christchurch to start facilitating Region HQ
repatriation to the portacoms in the Region car park.
4. USAR base in Latimer Square has been decommissioned. Once the Cache are
restored staff will be stood down for a time before recommencing shift duties
anticipated to start next week Thursday.
5. Fire Station maintenance is addressed by John Scoble as per scheduled work.
Earthquake related damage is addressed by Suzanne Price including regular
inspections following after shocks, Engineers reports as to building status,
and possible alternate facilities from which to conduct NZFS business. (This
includes facilities for Region.)
6. Although operating in a BAU mode some functions and Area structures had
to be adapted to accommodate the implementation of some aspects of the
Recovery Plan.
7. FRM Rob Saunders has taken over the role of IC Fire and media liaison.
8. City station has partly been restored to operational use with use of appliance
bay to house appliances, east block offices and sleeping rooms for a single
crew. The remainder of the crews are facilitated at Foley Towers for sleeping
and showers.
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9. Yard at City Station has been restored to full usage with cache being locked
away for stock take and storage.
10. Received a list of red and yellow stickered buildings, cross referenced against
CCC addresses. It also includes building demolished or cleared for demolition.
This still requires further confirmation before any ICAD data is changed.
11. Carterton's water tanker is housed again at city station with two further
tankers located in the eastern suburbs to augment water supplies for fire
fighting.
12. Additional telephones and computer connections have been livened up at
Mid Canterbury Area office providing a temporary site for Region HQ as per
BCP or as a possible Region EOC.
13. VOIP is to be installed for the immediate region staff with one phone for the
administrators in South Cant and West Coast. Phone numbers will change,
further notification to be sent out when this is determined.
14. Kims office is up and running as initial Region HQ and administration office
for all enquiries and all mail drop off and pick up [currently land line remains
the same]. Please note there are no couriers able to get into the ‘red zone’
so all couriers are being taken out once a day to the Rangiora Area Office
[Level 1, 8 Durham Street, Rangiora] to be couriered from there and we have
advised staff to get couriers delivered to this office, or Harewood station for
Kilmore Street couriers for easy collection.
15. Kitchen facilities have been restored on Chester Street Site along with
meeting room capability.
16. Paul Henderson will be checking tomorrow the layout and ongoing needs of
the original portacom set aside for the Community Risk Reduction group.
17. Invoicing from Quake is on track with all invoices received and processed by
Kim and couriered to Tania Hechtl on a daily basis. Currently there are no
outstanding invoices at Chester Street.
Planned:
1. After a week's leave Dan Coward is to return to his duties as Area Manager
Christchurch on 29 March.
2. Community Risk Reduction Group to relocate to Region HQ so as to be closer
to the areas where most of their work is. This will happen when staff that
work from the Mid Canterbury Area office will be released from their
operational roles in USAR second week in April.
3. Kim is having a meeting today at 3pm with all personnel on site to determine
what needs to be salvaged from original Region HQ and storage needs
required.
4. Woolston fire station crews are to be housed in portacoms, necessitating the
shifting of the turnout system and connecting various utilities to them.
5. Medium to long term plans will have to be given serious consideration in
relation to NZFS properties at City Station, Woolston Station and Region HQ
and where they are to be located.
6. Dave Guard is to meet with each watch as a means of keeping them informed
of progress and where we are at in the recovery to BAU process.
Roel Dijkstra – End of Sitrep
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