Exercise Phoenix is a city-wide Civil Defence exercise that is designed to help us practice for “the big one” and to spot any gaps in our readiness. This is the first time since I’ve been involved in Civil Defence (2004) that us Wellington City volunteers have been included in Phoenix. It is a region-wide exercise that is staged every year but in the past Wellington City’s involvement appears to have been limited to the WCC employees and emergency services.
We will be at Northland School on Saturday 7 November from about 8am through to about 11:30am and you may well see some of us out and about in Northland & Wilton that morning as we test out our communications and respond to the scenarios and tasks thrown at us by the Emergency Management Office.
Please feel free to drop in and say hello.
David
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