Councillors are an important link with the community and in any emergency it is important that those elected members are aware of the developing situation, and if requested can inform the community of the actions being taken by the council to mitigate the effects to the community that the situation has created.
In order to do this the council has planned to keep elected members informed of the situation. It must of course be remembered that the emergency services will be dealing with the incident in the immediate aftermath, and details will no doubt be limited as the concentration will be on rescue and dealing with the incident. It is important that people do not attend the incident but stay away and tune into radio and television for initial updates in accordance with the Public Information and Media Plan, outlined elsewhere on these information pages.
Councillors will become involved with the rebuilding of the community in due course as well as other individuals and organisations, and it is important that the community feeds into the recovery phase of an incident through their elected representatives.
