WEMO ERT Set 2 Photographs: March 2011
A collection of photographs taken by the Wellington Emergency Management Office (WEMO) Emergency Response Team in March 2011. The photographs are part of set two of WEMO's USAR photographs.
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8:04pm 1st November 2017
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Collection
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qsr-collection:20079
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- WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 109
- A photograph of the earthquake damage to Wharetiki on Colombo Street. One of the side walls has buckled and pulled away from the house.
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- WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 110
- A photograph of Wharetiki on Colombo Street. A temporary fence made out of wooden slats, plastic netting, and safety tape has been constructed in front of the property. USAR codes have been spray-painted on one of the front windows and a red sticker has been placed on the front door. The red sticker indicates that the building is unsafe to enter.
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- WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 111
- A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team in the back of a New Zealand Army truck. The ERT members are in Christchurch to help out in the emergency response to the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
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- WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 112
- A photograph looking west down Dundas Street. Rubble has been stacked on both sides of the street. Several earthquake-damaged cars, recovered from the Smiths City car park, have also been stacked on the left. In the background two excavators are sorting through the rubble.
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- WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 113
- A photograph of a member of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team standing on Dundas Street near the Smiths City car park. In the background several crushed cars have been removed from the car park and stacked on the road.
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- WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 114
- A photograph of the partially-demolished Smiths City car park, taken from Dundas Street. The front section of the car park has mostly been cleared, though there is still a scattering of rubble and steel reinforcement. The back section has collapsed, but the floors are largely intact, with many cars still parked on the top floor.
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- WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 115
- A photograph of a pile of twisted steel reinforcement and other rubble at the entrance to the Smiths City car park on Dundas Street. In the background a section of the collapsed car park has not been demolished yet. Many cars are still parked on the top floor.
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- WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 116
- A photograph looking east down Dundas Street. Piles of twisted steel reinforcement have been placed on both sides of the street. Several earthquake-damaged cars, recovered from the Smiths City car park, have been stacked on the left. On the other side of the street is an excavator grapple and bucket. In the distance two excavators are sorting through the rubble.
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- WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 117
- A photograph of a partially-demolished building next to the Team Hutchinson Ford Building on Tuam Street. Bricks and other rubble are piled on the footpath. Wire fences and road cones have been placed on the road as a cordon.
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- WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 118
- A photograph of a pile of rubble from a partially-demolished building on Tuam Street. The rubble is in front of the Team Hutchinson Ford building. Road cones and a wire fence have been placed on the street in the distance.
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- WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 119
- A photograph looking north up an alleyway on Tuam Street. The alleyway leads to Sol Square. There is a road cone in the middle of the alleyway. The message 'keep out' has been spray-painted on the ground on each side of the cone. In the distance there are bricks from several earthquake-damaged buildings in the alleyway.
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- WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 120
- A photograph of emergency management personnel walking down Manchester Street towards the intersection of High and Lichfield Streets. Many of the buildings on the left side of the road have been damaged by the earthquakes. In the distance rubble from the earthquake-damaged buildings has spilled onto the road. Steel fences have been placed along the footpath to the left.