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Nelson helps out with earthquake recovery Simon Bloomberg Fire crews, an urban search and rescue squad, St John Ambulance staff and police from Nelson and Tasman are busy helping with a massive recovery operation after the 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit Marlborough and North Canterbury early on Monday morning. The Nelson Fire Service and St John Ambulance were the first to head to Blenheim, leaving soon

after the earthquake devastated the small towns of Kaikoura, Seddon, Ward and Hanmer Springs shortly after midnight. They were followed by the Nelson Tasman Civil Defence Emergency Management Group’s specialist rescue team, the New Zealand Response Team 2 (RT2), which left later on Monday morning and 10 police officers from Nelson. The RT2 team of 10 volunteers, lead by Ian Watts, specialises in

urban search and rescue and has been deployed in the Awatere Valley. Ian says they are based in Seddon and are “tasked with checking on every property” in the expansive valley south of Blenheim. “We responded from Nelson to Marlborough EOC (Emergency Operations Centre) and got a briefing and deployed out to the comms truck at the school in Seddon. So far we’ve just seen mi-

nor damage to the properties we have called on but I understand as you travel toward Ward it’s a lot worse. “But we are still feeling some big aftershocks over here. The ground is still moving but our crew is pretty good.” The RT2 team consists of Ian, Jason Everett, Paul Howell, Stefan Lerbs, Jenny Craddock, Jim Perry, Bryn Stephenson, Graeme Seymour, Jason Monopoli and

Julian Malcolm. The Nelson Fire Service’s Tasman-Marlborough assistant area commander Des Irving had an early start on Monday, flying by helicopter from Wellington to the Civil Defence Emergency Operating Centre in Blenheim. “I was on the 18th floor on the James Cook Hotel when the earthquake hit so it was pretty

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Gala raises money for obstacle course Jessie Johnston Wakefield School students have big plans for the money raised from Saturday’s Twilight Gala. While the school community doesn’t yet know how much money the gala raised, they are sure about one thing, the money they do make will be spent on a new obstacle course. “This is something that the children have been pestering me about for about a year and a half, to the point where they’ve been sending me designs that they’ve made and special projects they’ve done on the kinds of obstacles they want,” principal Peter Verstappen says. Although the weather on Saturday impacted the outcome of the gala, Peter says people within our own community came and had “a really good day.” Pictured is Laylah Nicholson, 6, enjoying the slide at the gala. Photo: Jessie Johnston wheelchairs

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