Call to distance recovery work
PA Tauranga A study of the aftermath of the Eastern Bay of Plenty earthquake has concluded that Civil Defence recovery work should be based away from the centre of a disaster. The Bay of Plenty regional Civil Defence controller, Mr John Lepper, has revealed the recommendation which will be made to the Government He was speaking at the annual conference of the Planning Institute in Tauranga as chairman of the 8.0. P. United Council. Mr Lepper said a big debriefing was held on the earthquake, and some r&ommendations made tS? the Government .were
“a tumround” on traditional Civil Defence thinking. “It was quite clear to us in Rotorua that had a disaster of great magnitude occurred there, the recovery operation should be attempted in a place like Tauranga, not the centre of the quake,” he said. In Wellington, where a main Civil Defence exercise was recently held, it would be “an exercise in stupidity” to conduct a recovery from there if a big earthquake occurred. . “The recommendation is that Civil Defence for Wellington be conducted far away, in a Place such as Palmerston North,” Mr Lepper said.
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