Media Release
Sent On Behalf Of Napier City Council CDEM Staff

7 May 2009
49 Registered At Welfare Centre

Fourty nine people have registered at the Welfare Centre set up at Napier Intermediate School, in Jull Street, after much of the Napier Hill area has been locked down by Police.

Civil Defence Manager, Angela Reade says her emergency team is managing well with the full support of Civl Defence volunteers, Red Cross and Salvation Army.

"Our welfare plans have been activated and we are coping well," Angela says.

Napier City Civil Defence and Emergency Management have set up a welfare centre at Napier Intermediate School, Jull St, Napier for all those people unable to get to their Napier Hill homes because of the Police lockdown. If you can’t get home, you have a place to go.

NZ Police have closed the following streets until further notice –

• Burns Road
• Faraday St
• Guys Hill Road
• Napier Terrace
• Spencer Road
• Thackeray Street
• Main Street
• Milton Road
• Battery Road
• Hyderabad Road
• Carlyle St

This also closes the access to other streets which use those streets to get to them.

The Welfare Centre is well stocked and no donations of any kind are required at this stage.

ENDS

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