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WEMO ERT Set 3 - February 2011 - Photograph 032

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A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team sitting outside City Care on Antigua Street. The City Care building has been blocked off with wire fencing and police tape.

WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 66

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A photograph of an excavator clearing rubble from several earthquake-damaged buildings on Manchester Street. In the foreground a member of an emergency management team is watching on. Several other emergency management personnel can also be seen in the distance.

WEMO ERT Set 3 - February 2011 - Photograph 118

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A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team taking photographs of a building on Gloucester Street. To the left, USAR codes have been spray-painted on the wall of the building.

WEMO ERT Set 3 - February 2011 - Photograph 053

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A photograph of tents pitched at the On-Site Operations Coordination Centre (OSOCC) in Latimer Square. The OSOCC was set up by the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator.

Dan Neely WEMO Photograph 31

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A photograph of volunteers from the Wellington Emergency Management Office in a van.

Rebekah Rogers WEMO Photograph 112

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A photograph of volunteers from the Wellington Emergency Management Office in a van.

Jim Baltaxe WEMO Photograph 094

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A photograph of a temporary emergency management office set up in a hall in Christchurch.

Rebekah Rogers WEMO Photograph 098

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A photograph of emergency management personnel relaxing outside their campervans in Hagley Park.

WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 48

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A photograph of emergency management personnel taking a break in Latimer Square.

WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 04

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A photograph of a member of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team inside an earthquake-damaged house. The wall to the left has collapsed and has been covered with plastic sheeting. Bricks and other rubble cover the floor of the room. A chest of drawers with clothing still inside has toppled to the left and is resting on the rubble.

WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 08

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A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team standing in front of an earthquake-damaged building on Lichfield Street. A section of the roof and the façade on the top storey of the building have collapsed and the bricks and other rubble have spilled onto the footpath and street below. USAR codes have been spray-painted on one of the bottom-storey windows and the front door.

WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 42

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A photograph of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team posing for a photograph on Lichfield Street. In the background is the earthquake-damaged John Burns & Co. Ltd Building. The top storey of the side wall of the building has collapsed and the rubble has spilled into the car park below. Several cars which were crushed by the falling rubble have been stacked next to the building.

WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 23

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A photograph of a member of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team climbing a ladder up the back of a house on Gloucester Street. The ladder has been placed against the house so that the ERT members can enter the building through the open window. To the right a section of the house next door has collapsed and the bricks have spilled onto the shed below.

WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 24

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A photograph looking south down Manchester towards the intersection of Lichfield Street. In the distance members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team are standing next to a police car on Lichfield Street. Behind this there is a group of earthquake-damaged buildings which have spilled rubble onto Manchester Street. An excavator is parked on top of this rubble.

New Zealand Defence Force photograph 660

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The On-Site Operations Coordination Centre (OSOCC) in Latimer Square. After the 22 February 2011 earthquake, emergency service agencies set up their headquarters in Latimer Square. The OSOCC is set up by the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator. It helps to coordinate the local emergency response as well as advocate for humanitarian issue in political bodies such as the United National Security Council.