Handheld Radios Ready to be Distributed to Operation West...

Handheld Radios Ready to be Distributed to Operation West Volunteers

27 February 2011

From 25 February 2011 for a period of nearly two weeks hundreds of emergency response volunteers ran "Operation West" - a welfare operation aiming to visit every household in western Christchurch to check on residents and gather information about the state of the city. In that time more than 70,000 households were visited by LandSAR staff supported by Amateur Radio Emergency Communications (AREC) providing radio communications. The operation was based at Halswell Domain. At its peak, 350 volunteers were dispatched into the field and more than 100 handheld radios were required. This photo shows the fleet of handheld radios freshly charged and ready to be issued at the start of a day.

Creator: DanielAyers

Area: South West / Halswell

Contributor: DanielAyers

Reference ID: CCL-DW-107261

Uploaded by: DanielAyers

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License

This material has been provided for private study purposes (such as school projects, family and local history research) and any published reproduction (print or electronic) may infringe copyright law. Please contact Christchurch City Libraries if you have any questions relating to the use of this material or wish to order a hi resolution copy for commercial purposes. It is the responsibility of the user to obtain clearance from the copyright holder.

Handheld Radios Ready to be Distributed to Operation West Volunteers

Comments

Report this entry

More from the same area

Sign for a block of shops at 3 Kennedys Bush Road

Halswell Family Dairy, Halswell Road

Signs outside the Halswell Community Hall

Hornets store room at Halswell Domain

Tire marks in the Halswell Domain car park

Climbing frame at Halswell Domain

Halswell United club rooms at Halswell Domain

Set lights outside a house at Wigram Skies

Apartments under construction at Wigram Skies

Southern motorway running next to Aidanfield subdivision

Musgroves from Aidanfield Drive overbridge

Aidanfield Drive street sign

The Halswell Cross advertising on Aidanfield Drive

Southern motorway running alongside Aidanfield subdivision

Halswell Quarry wetlands

Sculptures at Halswell Quarry park

Halswell United club rooms at Halswell Domain

Gravestones at the Halswell Cemetery

Roundabout at Highcrest Heights Westmorland

Westmorland overlooking farmland

Highcrest Heights, Westmorland

Westmorland subdivision

Halswell Indoor Bowls Club