Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Scott MacLean: Dunedin Civil Defence Manager on the State of Emergency in the region

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Scott MacLean: Dunedin Civil Defence Manager on the State of Emergency in the region · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The state of emergency has been declared and toned and
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  Speaker 1: overnight this following the surface flooding because of torrential rain.
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  Speaker 1: Scott McLean is Toned and Civil Defense Controller Scott, Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the program. How many people have you got evacuated?
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  Speaker 1: How many in the evacuation centers?
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  Speaker 2: So we've got around about seventy people so far have
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  Speaker 2: taken up the offer of our welfare centers. So they
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  Speaker 2: are located at the Saint Clear Golf Club and Forsyth
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  Speaker 2: Bath Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Are their houses flooded or are they just precautionary?
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  Speaker 2: Most of them with precautionary. We've had reports of one
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  Speaker 2: or two starting to get water in their houses, but
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  Speaker 2: I think it was out of caution that they've relocated.
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  Speaker 1: Any reports of damage or injuries at this point.
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  Speaker 2: No reports thus far as injury and we haven't been
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  Speaker 2: able to get out in assess any damage at this point.
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  Speaker 1: What about power.
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  Speaker 2: As far as where weird power is still on?
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  Speaker 1: Is the worst over yet? Has the rain stopped or
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  Speaker 1: I mean obviously the rain's going to keep going, but
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  Speaker 1: has the river level peaked?
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  Speaker 2: So we understand the river levels have receded a bit,
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  Speaker 2: but it's still raining fairly steadily met service updated us
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  Speaker 2: around about nine o'clock last night and forecast up to
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  Speaker 2: one hundred miles for the following twenty four hours to
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  Speaker 2: nine o'clock tonight, So yeah, it's still a wee bit
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  Speaker 2: to go.
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  Speaker 1: Scott, what's your advice to people this morning? Do they
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  Speaker 1: go to work, do they go to school?
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  Speaker 2: Look, our advice is don't go out driving in particular
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  Speaker 2: unless you absolutely have to. It causes problems for our
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  Speaker 2: emergency responders. It can cause problems for homeowners in the
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  Speaker 2: low lying areas, pushing water off the roads and into
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  Speaker 2: people's property. So the advices is to stay home and
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  Speaker 2: stay safe.
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  Speaker 1: So that's today. The advice from Civil Defense is if
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  Speaker 1: you are in anywhere in Dunedin, stay home today.
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  Speaker 2: Look, it's probably safer to do so. If you don't
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  Speaker 2: have to travel, the advice would be to not travel.
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  Speaker 1: Scott, thank you for that, appreciate your time and best
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  Speaker 1: of luck.
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