From the 24th of February until the 9th of March I was deployed to the Napier Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) as part of the National Emergency Management Agency's (NEMA) surge team.
On the trip up we were hosted overnight at the Whenuapai airforce base and flown to Napier by the Royal Australian Air Force. Once in Napier, I spent time on the logistics and operations functions at the EOC, and worked on access control of the contaminated Awatoto industrial zone.