****TESTING EMERGENCY CONTACT SYSTEM - FOR EXERCISE ONLY*****
****TESTING EMERGENCY CONTACT SYSTEM - FOR EXERCISE ONLY*****
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To: All hostel Parents and Caregivers,
Central Otago has experienced extremely heavy snowfall over the past 12 hours and power supplies to the hostel and school has been disrupted. A local state of emergency is in place in Otago and Southland. School is currently closed. All hostel students are safe and well at the hostel. However, the hostel is without power - and forecasts indicate the situation may not improve for a number of days. Transit advise all state highways into Central Otago are now closed.
Services affected by the power outage are:
Main Heating System
Cooking Facilities
Telephone System
The hostel is open has initiated its emergency proceedures. Staff are currently planning for the welfare of all hostel students for the next three days. You are advised to monitor our emergency contact channels. We will post any further information for as long as we can, and when it becomes available.
****Exercise Emergency Message Ends*****
Important message to parents regarding new emergency contact procedures for DHS hostel.
As you will be aware the DHS Hostel is testing it emergency procedures this week. We will use all available methods to communicate with parents in the event of a major emergency. We are adding some new features this year which may help some parents.
1. E-mail and Text Message will remain our primary means of contacting and informing parents in a major emergency.
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2. We have added a Emergency Message board to the hostelive website. This message board will display all emails and text messages sent to parents during an emergency.
3. We have added a twitter feed to display information from DHS hostel. It also displays information feeds from NZ Civil Defence, Transit NZ, Metservice and Geonet.
We believe that the two new services provide efficient and effective information system in the event of an emergency. However, parents wishing to use them should be familiar with how they operate prior to a real emergency and decide if they are appropriate services for them to use in an emergency. Parents who wish to use the two new features should follow the steps below to become familiar with them. I encourage all parents to have a go at using these services - but stress that it is not essential - as parents will still be sent text and email messages, and telephoned when service levels and time permit. The Emergency Message Board also contains a wide range of useful information for parents in the event of an emergency.
To Use the E-blog Message Board. (Highly Recommended)
All parents should already be familiar with the hostelive website. The E-Blog Emergency Message Board is accessed from the hostelive site.
SO...
Step 1. Follow your existing bookmark to hostelive, or type
www.hostelive.net.nz into your web browser (Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Chrome etc..). you can also find it by "googling" hostelive.
Step 2. "Bookmark" or "Favourite" the hostelive website if you haven't done this already.
Step 3. You can find the link to the message board form the bottom of the home page, or from the newsletters page. Click on the link to the E-Blog Emergency Message Board form either of those pages. The instructions for using the message board, and the twitter feed will also be found on the message board.
If you visit the E-Blog Message Board please leave a comment this message when you foind it there. That way we will know you have found your way to site and are familiar with how to use it. Go ahead. It's easy.
Contact me by telephone or email if you have any difficulty with any of the instructions, or any questions at all about our emergency contact procedure.
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Kind regards,
Mark Templeton
Boarding Manager
Tel. 03 4487506
Mob. 021 574441
Dunstan High School
99 Russell St, Alexandra, 9320.
New Zealand.
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