Squeaky wheel gets the oil at long last
Signs indicating safe routes and zones in the event of a tsunami have been installed at key locations across the Karikari Peninsula.
“This is a pilot programme, and this is the first area to have these types of signs erected,” Far North District Council/Civil defence spokesman Bill Hutchinson said, adding that he expected other communities to want to follow suit.
The signs were erected after the Karikari Civil Defence First Response Group lobbied the FNDC and the Northland Regional Council.
One of the new tsunami warning signs being erected at Whatuwhiwhi.
“It’s taken us two years of being a squeaky wheel, but finally we have action,” spokesman Tony Gillespie said, fellow first response group member Brian Page saying more signs were planned to remind people to plan their emergency escape route.
Mr Hutchinson also encourages people to follow the Northland Civil Defence Facebook page, and to download the Hazard App to their cell phones.
“The Facebook page, ‘one source of truth’ for information when something occurs in our region, and the Hazard App are the only effective ways we can reach large numbers of people across Northland reasonably quickly,” he said.
The new signs had been logged into council data, and would be included on future regional council maps.