PLANNING for an emergency is not an easy task. With the unpredictable nature of a disaster event, it is not always possible for emergency services to respond to everyone who needs help, which is why community is so important.
No one understands the importance of community coming together more than Resilience in Recovery (RIR). As RIR continues to work with the community to prepare for the next disaster event, they held an Emergency Ready event with the Victoria State Emergency Services, last Thursday, March 6, in Mooroopna.
The event focused on four key areas that included demonstrations of how best to use sandbags to protect homes, printing flood intelligence portal property statements and showing how to interpret them, understanding emergency warnings, the importance of downloading the Vic Emergency app and broader home preparedness techniques.
“This particular event was about floods, but lots of preparedness advice is relevant to any emergency. The section on 72-hour preparedness is important in any emergency whether it’s a fire, an evacuation or even a medical emergency,” said SES Community Resilience Coordinator Liz Frazer.
RIR in conjunction with The Six C’s, Emergency Management Specialists are inviting Mooroopna residents to the Mooroopna Community Emergency Management Planning (CEMP) workshops that are coming up at Mooroopna Education and Activity Centre on Wednesday, March 19, April 2 and Monday May 12.
“There has been a lot of reflection and feedback that comes from community, council and different bodies and out of those reflections we are going to create CEMP,” said Bianca Dyball, the co-chair of Mooroopna flood recovery and resilience program.
“One of the misconceptions I have seen is that CEMP is just another council thing, it’s actually not just about the council. It’s about putting the community’s perspective above what they think is a priority when an emergency event is taking place.
“In an ideal world, yes, all these Emergency people are going to run in and save the day, but sometimes it’s about us helping each other. Then once we’ve helped each other, how do we go and help the next person.”
If you missed out on the Emergency Ready event in Mooroopna and would like further information on what was covered, want to be sent the resources that attendees received, or if you are based in Shepparton or Mooroopna and would like to be sent a copy of your properties flood report you can you are more than welcome to call 0422 171 738 or email us using the address below.
To learn more about Mooroopna CEMP project, or anything other upcoming events, or to be added to the mailing list for Mooroopna, Undera, Bunbartha or Murchison, please email recovery@shepparton.vic.gov.au or call (03) 5832 9700 and Follow Resilience in Recovery on Facebook.
