Cherry Willingham Community Emergency Plan

Cherry Willingham Community Emergency Plan

Plan last updated on: 26/1/12

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Plan distribution list

Joint Emergency Management Service (JEMS)

Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Headquarters

Plan amendment list

Contents

Local risk assessment

Local skills and resources assessment

Key locations identified with emergency services for use as places of safety

Emergency contact list

Sample telephone tree

List of community organisations that may be helpful in identifying vulnerable people or communities in an emergency

Activation triggers

First steps in an emergency

Community Emergency Group first meeting agenda

Actions agreed with emergency responders in the event of an evacuation

Alternative arrangements for staying in contact if usual communications have been disrupted

Local risk assessment

• Ditches & Watercourses
• Waterford Lane.
• North & South Fiskerton Road
• East of Ladymeers Rd
• Culverts
• Waterford Lane
• Green Lane
• Drains
• Schools
• Ancaster Close
• Jubilee Close
• Spring Levels
• Schools
• Sycamore Close
• Fern Grove
• Waterford Lane
• Larkin Ave
• Cedar Ave
• Sewage
• Church Lane
• Fiskerton Rd

• Flooding of local streets
• Damage to property
• Flooding School
• Flooding Gardens
• Higher insurance claims
• Low Community Spirit
• Homeless residents
• The school closes for a sustained period of time

• Encourage residents to improve home flood defences
• Tackle the problem on Waterford Lane with Riparian water course
• Work with local emergency responders to see if they can help with distribution of flood warnings
• Work on planners to improve drainage of new buildings in known flood risk areas
• Make sure that all ditches are kept clear
• Make sure that drains are properly cleansed on a regular basis
• Look at solutions for the spring areas – better drainage?
• Lobby Anglia Water for a solution to the drainage problem

• Public Buildings
• Private Household

• Very much depends on severity.
• Homelessness

• Ensure temporary accommodation is available
• Notify appropriate authorities

• Green Lane
• Croft Lane

• May need to assist in the first instance

• Offer temporary accommodation
• Notify services

• Airplane crash
• Fuel dump
• Dropped articles

• Death
• Houses destroyed or damaged
• Injury of residents

• Have an emergency shelter
• Notify appropriate authorities

• Residents stranded without vital supplies
• Unable to reach medical help
• Communication disrupted

• Offer local help as appropriate

Local skills and resources assessment

Key locations identified with emergency services for use as places of safety

Emergency contact list

Telephone tree

List of community organisations that may be helpful in identifying vulnerable people or communities in an emergency

Activation triggers

[Use this space to record details of how your plan will be activated. You should include details of how the plan will be activated as a result of a call from the emergency services, and also how your community will decide to activate the plan yourselves, if the emergency services are unavailable]

We still need timescales

1. When we get a flood warning

1. When PC rings the coordinator

1. Collect supplies – food, water & blankets

1. Arrange overnight shelter (key holders for temp accommodation

First steps in an emergency

[Use this space to add the steps to be followed in when the plan is activated]

Actions agreed with emergency responders in the event of an evacuation

1. Help police/local authority with door knocking
2. Tell emergency services who might need extra help to leave their home
3. Advise of key holders if evacuation to one of the identified safe house

Alternative arrangements for staying in contact if usual communications have been disrupted

Useful Links
Environment Agency. www.environment.agency.gov.uk 08708506506

Red Cross
WRVS wrvs.org.uk 08456014670

St Johns 08700104950

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