Community emergency hubs
A community emergency hub is a place where you and your neighbours can go to help each other in a major emergency. There are 127 hubs across the Wellington Region. They are located at community facilities and some schools and can be opened by keyholders living in the local area.
In a major emergency, official responders will need to prioritise the most urgent issues, so it is likely that for the first few days you will need to help each other within your local community. The hub is a designated place where you can gather, connect with one another and solve problems using the skills and resources which already exist among your community.
WREMO (Wellington Region Emergency Management) works with communities to practise how they would respond to an earthquake and help the people they live nearest to get through even some of the most challenging issues.
Resources available at the community emergency hub
The hub is run by people like you in your local community without official assistance. Each hub has a guide for how to coordinate the sharing of information, skills and resources that exist in your community.
There is a small amount of equipment, including a VHF radio in case the phone and internet networks aren't working. The radio will allow communities to communicate with the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) run by your local council.
There are no supplies, food, water or blankets stored at hubs. Our communities are full of beds with blankets on them and pantries with food in them to get through the first week after an emergency. Your community can gather the things it needs at the time by working together.
Running of the community emergency hub
Community members run a hub without official assistance - it's essentially a place for neighbours to help each other in a coordinated way. Each hub has a hub guide, which explains how to organise an emergency response and describes the different roles needed.
WREMO works with communities to practise how they would respond to an earthquake and help the people they live nearest to get through even
Find your emergency hub
WREMO has listed all the emergency hubs within: